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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (117833)	4/5/2016 1:38:07 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 220490

Re <<Systems like Invisalign are essentially the same thing, a sequential series of bite-guards which move teeth to their final location. — invisalign.com >> ... yes, although ALGN's trays are worn by the patient under doctor's supervision and the docs are trained by the company, and alignment progress tracked by way of successive 3D scans using ALGN's iTero scanners whether the doctors are being paid enough or too much is perhaps arguable, as is whether dental schools are charging too much for tuition and whether the would-be / wanna-be docs are needlessly pre-qualified w/ a liberal arts university education. Re <<... But this is still just as painful as you start wearing each new alignment guard, and requires you to wear the bite-guards essentially all the time, just as if you had wires attached to your teeth. If you were to take breaks in wearing the guards, the end result will take far, far longer.>> ... yes, and a little-spoken (by the orthodontic industry/doctors to patients) about happening known as resorption (killing of bone) is perhaps left out of most ortho discussions between doctors and would-be patients. Killing of bone happens when constant force is applied against bone (i.e. bed-ridden folks, orthodontic patients, etc). It turns out that patient compliance w/ clear aligner (plastic trays) wearing goes way down after about the sixth month of treatment, and so instead of wearing the trays for 22 hours a day, the patients only wear the trays when sleeping, and the treatment time line extends out from usual 18 months to 30+ months, w/ consequent less perfect alignment and necessitating long refinement period (which cost money and time even if not paid-for by the patient. If only there is a way to finish treatment of the patient before the 6th month's drop-off in patient compliance, and also to reduce pain, and dramatically decrease resorption. In such a perfect world a lot of people would be smiling better smiles faster at less overall cost in time and money. Re <<As with orthodontic braces when I was young, the final result depends enormously on wearing the final retainer for a number of years to maintain the positioning of the teeth. I know a few people who didn't do this and went back through the same abuse a second time as an adult simply because they had failed to wear their retainer once they had their braces removed.>> ... yeup, and if there is a way to lessen the condition of relapse ... and in any case, if there is a way to re-treat adults at accelerated speed w/ reduced pain and less resorption, so much the better. i know a little company that may be able to help :0)