Liz. Invisalign Trays no 11. Well nothing much to report on these other than I actually wish there was a bit more pain as I would know that something was moving under pressure?!  have read numerous blogs, watched You Tube videos and hard how other fellow brace wearers are suffering with pain killers for the first few days, well I have none of that. The odd sensitivity here and there but nothing as much as I expected. I have 52 trays to get through – ugh, and that is without any refinement that I understand might well be needed from reading others experiences. My guilty secret is drinking Diet Coke through a straw, and this does worry be as I think in a years time will be teeth have turned to mush, so I KNOW it is wrong, very very bad indeed, and I have no one but to blame but myself. So this is a bigger challenge for me, trying to avoid drinking any other than water when these things are in my mouth, well ok that and the odd glass of white wine.

The bottom four front teeth are still all being pushed outwards so that they will splay (delightful), then get the IPR before being pulled back in again. I have a great big bottom molar – I call big bertha, that is like a big iceburg, it is titled over a bit like the titanic, but I have no elastics so do wonder how on earth this tooth is going to be pulled back up to vertical – we will see…as yet I don’t think it has shifted at all. It leaves a gap between by bottom and top teeth,  which when I was young might just about have been cute at best, but now….not so cute. Also the trays have moved my bottom canine out far that clash of the canines means that none of the molars now meet each other, so I have to suck on bread rather than chew it – super fun.  It seems that I have now reached a possible point of no return in the process – so no going back – gulp….