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beam88
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Hi all:
I went to the dentist for the 1st time in 10 years. They said I needed a scaling & rooting and nothing else. My teeth are severely jacked/crooked/crazy looking and very, very yellow, so I asked, "What about everything else?," and they said they I was a candidate for braces.
So a few weeks later, I have Invisalign, but I'm more nervous than ever, especially because the communication hasn't been great from my dentist. They are an anxiety-friendly office, and I unfortunately have huge issues with bringing topics up or speaking up, which I would assume is a common thing with anxious patients. So I never mentioned whitening, because I had no idea what to expect in these appointments, and I just thought at some point they would provide whitening options or realities.
So now I have attachments for Invisalign, which look awful and more pronounced because of the yellow. I would honestly rather have a mouth full of snaggle-teeth that were white than the opposite. Whitening was always my priority. I know I should have said something earlier. But when I called to ask what my options were now, they basically said I have to wait 10 months to get the braces off and then do bleaching trays in office. I even asked if we could just take the attachments off and bleach and then put them back on when it's done (days? a week?), but they made it sound like it would mess up the trays we already ordered? I'm only 2 weeks into Invisalign so I don't see why it would matter.
But what really drove me crazy was that I mentioned that I was under the impression that my teeth probably won't respond to bleaching because they are translucent and wet-looking, which I understood to mean that the dentin was showing through, or the enamel was eroded. Which will usually only be fixed by bonding or veneers. The dentist said he'd never heard of what I was talking about. Ermmm.
I am at the point now, and have been for awhile, where I'm so humiliated that I barely see anyone, and my whole goal in this process was to get my life back. I desperately need a better job and to see my friends again, and I just can't do that when I look like this. My self-esteem is at an all-time low. And I'm not sure going to another dentist would help since they don't have any of the Invisalign information. Does anyone have any advice or suggestions? If I could just improve ONE thing at this point, it would help so incredibly much.
Thanks.
I went to the dentist for the 1st time in 10 years. They said I needed a scaling & rooting and nothing else. My teeth are severely jacked/crooked/crazy looking and very, very yellow, so I asked, "What about everything else?," and they said they I was a candidate for braces.
So a few weeks later, I have Invisalign, but I'm more nervous than ever, especially because the communication hasn't been great from my dentist. They are an anxiety-friendly office, and I unfortunately have huge issues with bringing topics up or speaking up, which I would assume is a common thing with anxious patients. So I never mentioned whitening, because I had no idea what to expect in these appointments, and I just thought at some point they would provide whitening options or realities.
So now I have attachments for Invisalign, which look awful and more pronounced because of the yellow. I would honestly rather have a mouth full of snaggle-teeth that were white than the opposite. Whitening was always my priority. I know I should have said something earlier. But when I called to ask what my options were now, they basically said I have to wait 10 months to get the braces off and then do bleaching trays in office. I even asked if we could just take the attachments off and bleach and then put them back on when it's done (days? a week?), but they made it sound like it would mess up the trays we already ordered? I'm only 2 weeks into Invisalign so I don't see why it would matter.
But what really drove me crazy was that I mentioned that I was under the impression that my teeth probably won't respond to bleaching because they are translucent and wet-looking, which I understood to mean that the dentin was showing through, or the enamel was eroded. Which will usually only be fixed by bonding or veneers. The dentist said he'd never heard of what I was talking about. Ermmm.
I am at the point now, and have been for awhile, where I'm so humiliated that I barely see anyone, and my whole goal in this process was to get my life back. I desperately need a better job and to see my friends again, and I just can't do that when I look like this. My self-esteem is at an all-time low. And I'm not sure going to another dentist would help since they don't have any of the Invisalign information. Does anyone have any advice or suggestions? If I could just improve ONE thing at this point, it would help so incredibly much.
Thanks.