What is the Invisalign Treatment?

Invisalign enables patients to avoid conventional braces while aligning their teeth and achieving a great smile. The treatment is more comfortable and less visible than braces. The trays utilized to move teeth can be removed to make it easy to brush, floss, and eat. There are no diet restrictions with Invisalign, and hygiene is much easier to achieve than with conventional braces.

The Invisalign treatment involves wearing a series of clear plastic trays that progressively move the teeth a little at a time with each tray. The trays are very similar in appearance to a bleaching tray, but are constructed by a computer aided manufacturing process. Using special molds of the teeth, records and a treatment plan from the orthodontist, a three dimensional image is created by scanning the molds. The images are manipulated to simulate tooth straightening in small increments. A series of images is created for each step of a tooth aligning process. Accurately fitting trays are fabricated per increment, and each tray is worn full-time (24 hours per day except for brushing and eating) for two weeks. A patient may wear a series of 20-30 trays during the course of treatment.

You can visit Invisalign's web site at www.invisalign.com .

For more information or to schedule a free consult with Dr. Gluck, call us at (770) 664-6003.