Liz Invisalign…. OK well I have already lost count of the days now so that is positive….I think it is time to start measuring by tray progress. I am now on Trays No 5 – yeh!, and four days in. They definitely seem tighter than the previous 4 trays which is good, and I am more than happy to have a little tenderness when I take them out to eat. I am unable to see any change however which is somewhat disappointing but from what I have read it may not become apparent until Trays No 10….so patience. I confess that I have become more relaxed about having the odd slurp of tea with them still in, I do not drink coffee and my tea is like dish water so I do not think it will have much affect on staining the aligners. However what I MUST stop doing, is snacking and putting them back in without a proper brush. I do brush them 3 times a day, morning, noon and night but I tend to snack mid morning and mid afternoon. I have become a bit obsessed about researching others progress, as I do want to feel that I am progressing as I should. My invisalign have a lot of hard work to do, with rotating, pulling one lower molar up, and widening the arch, so I do wonder if it is all rather ambitious. I do enjoy freaking out colleagues with putting my “teeth” in a glass of water at my desk when eating lunch….but otherwise no one seems to notice them or they are too polite to say anything which I think is more likely as I do have a significant number of attachments. My dentist saw me last week and said that the aligners seem to be fitting well, but I am a little disappointed that after asking him to check all the attachments were in place, noticed the next day that one was actually missing. It is the second one I will have had to had re attached after only 8 weeks of wear. I assume I am swallowing them…gulp?!