Rachel knows what it's like to wear braces - she went
through treatment as a teenager. Like many people, at some point she
stopped wearing her retainer. Without the support of her custom retainer,
her teeth started to readjust as she aged.
"A couple of my teeth in
particular had started to move," Rachel says. "Every time I
looked in the mirror, I noticed these two teeth creeping forward.
Some days, I would literally look at my reflection and say 'Whoa.'"
When Rachel found out about
Invisalign, the tooth-straightening system that involves wearing
clear plastic aligners, she was hooked. "All it took was a
single visit to my doctor for them to make impressions of my
teeth," says the 26-year-old sales rep. A sequence of thirteen custom
plastic aligners are now bringing her teeth back into perfect position.
Currently on her third aligner,
Rachel is delighted to report that Invisalign is working out even better
than she expected. Prior to treatment, she had worried that she'd forget
to wear the aligners, especially since she had trouble remembering to wear
her retainer. "I have a tendency," she admits, "to not do
things on a regular schedule - I'm terrible at taking my vitamins every
morning!" She found wearing her aligners to be simple, and describes
the experience as natural. "At this point, I feel weird if they're not
in," she says. "And they don't interfere with eating, because I
can just take them out at mealtime!"
Her aligners don't show: they are
made of thin plastic and they snap tightly onto her teeth. Rachel chuckles as
she recalls, "The only person who picked up on the difference was my
boyfriend’s mom, and she just thought my teeth were shinier!”
Rachel does like to point out her aligners to friends. “I want
them to know that Invisalign is a cool way to have perfect teeth again –
even if they were like me and stopped wearing their retainers after having
braces as a kid.”
