Lateral Incisor Puns

I’m more than half way done (24/44) and I’m more than happy with the results thus far. But on my last appointment, I raised concern that one tooth isn’t tracking and the attachment isn’t clipping with the trays, I noticed that almost two trays ago. So she asked me to bring previous trays and she tried them on and said: it’s too late to go back, we’ll just fix it in refinements. She said it will keep moving, just the lateral position wouldn’t change (they won’t go lower or higher).

I’m skeptical of how she didn’t notice it on my last appointment and she said everything was fine, also she checks progress with the Clincheck model? Isn’t that an estimate? Like it won’t give accurate results? To be fair she also uses a sheet with numbers on them, but I think it’s for IPR.

So, is this kind of experience fine or acceptable? And how do orthos normally check progress? I searched in this sub about lateral incisor and how it’s common they don’t track, but does it affect the end result?

Thanks everyone.

Has anyone had canine substitution for lateral incisors ? I have congenitally missing a lateral incisor so the ortho said the best treatment would be to remove my small peg shaped incisor and pull the canines forward with braces and have them reshaped to look like lateral incisors. If you have had any similar treatment how long did it take and was the end result good?

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I have had Invisalign for exactly a year now. My teeth weren’t too bad initially as I had had braces when I was younger.

First set was 13 trays at 12 day intervals. I’ve since completed refinements of 5 trays, 4 trays and on tray 5 of 10 to tray to try and move the lateral incisors. All 14 day intervals.

At this point they’re barely moving and my orthodontist continues to feel confident that these will be the last set of refinements however they’re no where near. I’m seeing a 2mm air gap starting to form again on the left incisor indicating that despite having an attachment on both incisor with 5 more for a total of 7, that they’re still unable to get them to shift.

Feeling very defeated by the process, especially because I was told it should be 9 months max.

I’m debating very much reluctantly pivoting to short term braces to see if they work, but not sure I want to get stuck with the metal for months on end.

I am also very diligent with the trays and most days at 22+ hours in and use chewys religiously.

Hello friends, Long term lurker first time poster here! I’m really worried about my right lower lateral incisor. I’m on tray 10/20 and since the past 3-5 trays my lateral incisor has been going more and more rogue. My lower teeth were actually quite straight before treatment so needed very little adjusting but I believe they were trying to fix my midline which is very off (after looking at my arch more closely I can see that all my lower teeth are naturally shifted to one side causing the drift in midline for my lower teeth). The lateral is now going sideways and is turning into my canine. It’s also no longer fitting into the space that has been carved out in the aligner. Also, since tray 6-7, the back side of that aligner in that area is flipped out, as in I can almost get my tongue under my aligner. This makes me think that the aligner putting a lot of pressure on my teeth to narrow and it’s probably crowding.

Anyway, I brought this up with my dentist when I went to collect tray 10 and she admitted that it was not tracking (I think it’s worse than that, it’s going full rogue) and said that I would need refinements and that would be better than a mid-course refinement but now I’ve had this tray in for a few days it’s gotten even worse and I feel like the further I go the worse it’s going to get and I’m scared that it will be harder to correct later given laterals are such a PIA generally.

I wished I had just asked them to leave me lower teeth mostly as they are because now they are much worse than when they started!

Has anyone had this, stayed the course and everything turn out OK without 100 years of refinements? Should I push for mid-course correction?