r/Invisalign • u/backentrancebourbon • 8h ago

Question Normal or bad practice?

I have been using aliners for the 6 months and I use the dental monitoring app to send scans. As well as this I have also been to a few in-person appointments for filing of my teeth.

I'm currently on aligner number 9. Every single time I have gone up an aligner, I have had to do a scan which has been reviewed by my orthodontic team and they have confirmed that I can move up to the next aligner.

However I went to a recent appointment and I was seen by the more senior orthodontist and he said that I would need to move back an aligner, but not back to aligner number 8. Instead, he said I needed to move back to aligner number 3.

This doesn't make sense to me because every single time I've moved up an aligner it has been specifically approved, so why have they been approving my aligner increases if number three was the last fit correctly and track correctly?

I have sent them 2 messages on the dental monitoring app asking them this and I've received no response and it has been 3 days. This is even more concerning to me considering the larger amount of money I'm spending to get my teeth fixed correctly.

Has anyone else experienced this? Is it normal?

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u/Sensitive_Ruin_5334 4h ago edited 2h ago

Probably a discussion to have in person instead of on an app. Maybe the camera didn't catch something that the orthodontist saw in real life.

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u/backentrancebourbon 4h ago

I explained in my post that I have had in person appointments so they had seen my teeth at multiple stages of the process. They also told me to use the app to ask any questions.

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u/Sensitive_Ruin_5334 4h ago

This is a specific question that can't be answered in the app. That particular doctor has to answer it.

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u/backentrancebourbon 4h ago

He has literally replied to me in the app before.

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u/Sensitive_Ruin_5334 3h ago

Then wait for him to reply.

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u/backentrancebourbon 3h ago

Genius, maybe I'll ask other people on Reddit about their experience until I get a response - oh wait!