My front teeth were protruding, so I went for partial correction, and
the doctor said that
my entire front teeth were overdeveloped, so partial correction was meaningless
and the answer was either not doing it or getting full correction. If you do partial correction, it will not be noticeable or it will not be noticeable, so it is a waste of money and time.
Because my lower jaw is small and my upper teeth are developed, I ultimately decided on Invisalign.
After extracting my 2 upper wisdom teeth and 2 premolars, I waited about a month and a company called Invisalign arrived with n pieces of clear aligners that matched my teeth.
Mine had 51. This is the first time I heard of multiple devices with numbers.
You wear number 1 for 10 days, then number 2, and so on
. If you stick with it, it goes by quickly, but this is an advantage and a disadvantage because it is a detachable device. If you lack willpower, the speed will inevitably slow down.
Thanks to this, I don't eat snacks, and when I take them off, I eat a lot.
I've never brushed
my teeth this hard in my life.
Because of malocclusion, I push the inner molars first, but the space between my teeth is wide open, so there's a lot of food. I'm a master
of dental floss and interdental brushes, even though I've never used them in my life. It's progressing, and
it's now about 50% of the way through, but I can definitely feel it a lot, and
the advantage of clear braces is that there's almost no pain after a month or two. You only need to go to the hospital once every three months.
It's really almost invisible. There is no problem with eating.
Disadvantage
The biggest advantage is that it is removable, but this is the biggest disadvantage.
It is not normal to take it out and put it
back in and brush your teeth every time you eat. Especially when eating out, you have to go to the bathroom and take it out, but to put it back on, you have to brush your teeth again.
Just because you are afraid of losing it during company dinners or drinking parties. Except,
the difference is about 700,000 won compared to regular correction, but I think there is a merit to that difference.