BRACES VS. INVISALIGN? | Dr. G Gives the Definitive Answer

hello everybody i would like to take the opportunity and educate you about invisalign versus conventional braces it is extremely important and i am going to tell you exactly what i would do for my own family when you go to a dentist if the dentist is a general dentist a lot of these general dentists

are pushing invisalign because they simply look into their toolbox doing conventional braces is not easy commercial braces it takes years of experience it takes years of specialty work that expertise is necessary to get the teeth in the right position invisalign or clear aligners they are kind of a shortcut that people take and

there are so many disadvantages to that i would like to start with something very simple america is the country of cars and people understand cars when you go and get new tires you need alignment of those tires you do not align the back tires separately from the front tires or the right tire separate from the left

tires all of the four tires are aligned together same goes for invisalign invisalign or clear liners what they do is they straighten your upper arch and the trays the series of trays that they use they straighten the lower arch so you have a straight upper arch and you have a straight lower arch but the

occlusion the word occlusion it means the way our teeth come together the teeth do not come together in harmony in many cases they actually harm your tmj your temporomandibular joint so it's exactly like i said like a car you align your back tires separately and you align your front tire separately so you're driving your front tires are

going this direction and your back tires are going the other direction how bad is that for the tire guess what folks in the mouth you don't have the luxury of getting new sets of teeth the only get two sets of teeth one is our baby teeth and one is the adult set of teeth so we have to be very careful