Category “Dr Patel Answers”

My 17 year old daughter has been given a treatment plan for Invisalign and Invisalign Lite. The dentist has repeatedly tried to steer us to the full Invisalign treatment, which costs almost double. He has said that if we went with Invisalign Lite, “it would look fine.” He has offered us “14 aligners to align the front teeth better improve the vertical dimension to provide more space for future treatments, but this will not fully close the spaces between the extracted teeth.” The extracted teeth were baby teeth (ur3 and ul3) that were removed because my daughter had two ingrown upper canines that were impinging on the roots of her two front upper teeth. We just don’t seem to understand why he tells us that Invisalign Lite won’t close the spaces at the front.