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Orthadontic problem

  • 24-03-2009 11:51am
    #1
    qt9ukbg60ivjrn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 384 ✭✭


    I went to an ortho and heres the situation

    he said 1 year with invisalign then one year with normal braces

    5200 euro total

    i said what if i get to 1 year and finish with invisalign, he said no problem but invisalign most likely won't fix my bite (not really too bothered with it)

    so i called up the secretary after i left enquiring what the cost would be if i did stop after 1 year, she said the dr was not in but he would get back to me

    so the receptionist called me back after talking to the dr. and told me the following

    "the dr. said that if you choose to only go with invisalign, you would have to get one of your bottom front teeth extracted":eek:

    i paused for a second, and asked her, 'are you sure?' she said yes. so i hung up stunned that something so ridiculously stupid could be said.

    To my reasoning i would be left with 1 (one) single solitary central incisor, and instead of having two front teeth for christmas it'd be a central tooth, this would look ridiculously unnatural, i'd have three teeth between my bottom canines instead of four.

    I actually can't understand why he said this, I'm going back to him this week and i'll ask him, is what the receptionist said correct? (cause it seems like it couldn't possibly be, no orthodontist, whos life work is correcting teeth, would leave someone with a middle tooth) If he said that is the case, i'll take my x-rays (200 euro) and GTFO



    I was wondering to myself is he scaremongering me into paying the moneys, TBH its my moneys and i worked to get and i'm not the type of person to be bullied by someone into throwing it away needlessly, so if that's his game, he can shove it, if its not his game...well i'm sorry for telling him to shove it:D

    any advice from anyone with experience of orthodontic treatment?

    do you also think this sounds ridiculous?


Comments

  • #2
    girlingalway
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12 ✭girlingalway


    If you have quite alot of crowding then invisalign cannot create the necessary space to straighten your teeth so the space would be provided but extracting one of your lower front teeth. Fixed braces are strong enough to move the large molars at the back further back and thereby create the space needed to straighten your teeth.


  • #3
    qt9ukbg60ivjrn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 384 ✭✭qt9ukbg60ivjrn


    girlingalway wrote: »
    If you have quite alot of crowding then invisalign cannot create the necessary space to straighten your teeth so the space would be provided but extracting one of your lower front teeth. Fixed braces are strong enough to move the large molars at the back further back and thereby create the space needed to straighten your teeth.


    The dr. told me that treatment would involve 1 year (first) of invisalign, then 1 year (after the first) of normal braces

    So according to him when the option of getting full treament was on the table, invisalign was a viable option for the first year of treatment, but now that I am thinking about just getting invisalign he is telling me i need a tooth out.

    None of this makes sense.

    Surely he would have told me that I would have needed to get a tooth extraction done from the beginning regardless of whether I continued with normal braces after the invisalign or not


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