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Orthodontics used to mean bulky metal brackets that may rub your gums raw and cut your lips.
No more.
Introducing Invisalign®, today’s invisible and comfortable orthodontics for your entire family.
It is not uncommon for children and adults alike to have crooked teeth, but Invisalign® could present the very solution you’ve been seeking for a more attractive smile.
Invisalign® clear aligners are an effective treatment to correct several orthodontic issues. This proven technology utilizes a custom set of aligners that are worn in stages, with each one used for a few weeks before moving onto the next set. The slow transition of your Invisalign® aligners allows for gradual correction to your smile without pain, inconvenience, or trouble.
Maintenance is simple, too.
You can easily remove the aligners for cleaning and they require only minimal maintenance, making them a perfect solution for busy teens, as well. You will remove your aligners to eat and drink, as well as to brush and floss.
These comfortable aligners fit seamlessly into your mouth, quietly working in the background as you go about your day.
Invisalign® may be a perfect solution for you if you have any of the following:
- Overcrowding
- Overbite or underbite
- Crossbite
- Open bite
- Gaps between the teeth
- Crooked alignment
Our Invisalign® program offers specialized doctor-designed and monitored treatment with individualized support throughout the entire process at Goochland Dentistry.
We begin with a consultation to review your medical history and examine your mouth. Modern, digital technology provides meticulous scans, replacing the messy and timely dental impressions of yesterday. With instant images, we are able to eliminate extensive waiting periods and deliver your new smile that much faster.
Technology is also a vital part of the development process, combining a proprietary SmartTrack® formula with an advanced printing system to create your custom series of aligners. With these high-tech tools, we can accurately mimic each tooth to ensure optimum comfort and natural movement of your entire smile. From there, we will monitor your progress as you move closer to your dream smile! Follow-up appointments are usually scheduled every six weeks.
This is Invisalign® from start to finish, everything included when you are ready to fix your smile, we start with data collection, which is a scan, photos, and x-rays. Three weeks after data collection, you come to review your ClinCheck personally. A ClinCheck is a computer animation that shows how your teeth will move. The average Invisalign® case is 11 months. Dr. Murchie has completed advanced Invisalign® training, reducing the average time to only 6 months. In many cases, this lowers the need for additional treatment. Dr. Murchie makes Invisalign® quick, better, and easier for you. Three weeks after you approve your ClinCheck, you will return to start your first tray and begin to get the smile you have always wanted. You’ll wear trays 24/7 day and night when eating and sleeping, except when you brush and floss. Your treatment is customized to your needs.
Some patients need IPR, which is polishing between the teeth to create small space for uncrowded teeth, make the teeth fit together better and look better. Some people need tooth-colored attachments. It will help move teeth better, and they’re polished off at the end. Our goal is to minimize the visits while maximizing your results. After you get going and have a good foundation, we give you multiple trays to take home and start on specific dates. You are welcome to come to the office as often as you want, but many people find the multiple visits unnecessary, saving you time and effort. All you have to do is wear the trays and Dr. Murchie will do the rest. When you are happy with your smile, we give you retainers that are like your Invisalign® trays, but slightly thicker. You wear retainers at night every night to protect from grinding and clenching, which will keep your teeth happy. This can be used for whitening, which is available for purchase in the office. All retainers, stretch and teeth shift. New retainers are made a minimum of every two years to prevent shifting. Some people go through retainers quicker, so in the future you can purchase additional retainers from us. How can Dr. Murchie provide more Invisalign® benefits while costing so much less? Dr. Murchie has seen and heard the tremendous health benefits of straight teeth and Invisalign® therapy and wants as many people as possible to see these benefits. He has been an Invisalign® provider for more than 10 years, receives discounts from Invisalign® and passes the savings along to you.
So are you ready to fix your smile today?
It’s easier than you think to achieve the smile of your dreams.
During your consultation, our patient support team will review pricing information specific to your case, as well as insurance and financing options. Invisalign® is a simple, comfortable, and attractive solution to correct crooked teeth.
Schedule an appointment with Dr. Murchie today to see what Invisalign® can do for you!
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about Invisalign
Goochland Dentistry is proud to offer Invisalign treatment to Manakin-Sabot and Central Virginia residents. Unlike traditional braces, Invisalign offers comfortable, fast, and discreet orthodontics, appealing to many teens and adults.
Thinking about beginning your Invisalign adventure but trying to figure out how to get started? We’ve compiled a comprehensive Invisalign FAQs section to ensure you’re thoroughly informed before scheduling an appointment with our office.
Traditional braces straighten teeth using metal wires and brackets to apply constant pressure until optimal alignment is achieved. Invisalign uses the same principle, but the approach is different. Instead of metal appliances, Invisalign uses removable, clear plastic trays to move teeth. Invisalign aligners are fabricated in a lab using digital images of your mouth.
Clear aligners are worn in a pattern, each set moving your teeth closer to perfection. You must wear the trays for 20-22 hours daily, only removing them when cleaning teeth or eating. This means you must wear your aligners even when sleeping. However, this shouldn’t worry you because clear braces are made from an advanced material that offers unrivaled comfort.
Since its invention in the late 1990s, Invisalign treatment has transformed over 14 million smiles, and the numbers keep growing. Countless patients have used Invisalign to correct the dental issues below.
- Gaps and spaces between the teeth
- Crowded and overlapping teeth
- Underbite
- Overbite
- Crossbite
- Open bite
- Overjet
If you want to see what Invisalign can do for your smile, schedule an appointment with an Invisalign-certified dentist in Manakin-Sabot like Dr. Peter Murchie. He’ll review your bite and teeth to determine whether Invisalign is the best treatment.
Invisalign is an effective tooth straightening option for mild to moderate orthodontic issues. While only a certified dentist can determine your eligibility for Invisalign, certain factors can act as a guide.
Good candidates for Invisalign typically must:
- Have good oral health — no cavities and gum disease
- Be committed to good oral hygiene
- Comply with wearing the trays 20-22 hours daily
- Have a fully developed jaw, making teens and adults ideal candidates
Here are the compelling reasons why Invisalign treatment is a worthwhile investment.
- Comfortable
- Discreet
- Fast treatment
- Uninterrupted oral hygiene
- Invisalign trays are easy to maintain
If you have misaligned teeth, Invisalign can help you achieve straight, uniformly-spaced teeth in the next 12-18 months. To get started, please call (804) 206 9455 to schedule an appointment with Goochland Dentistry in Manakin-Sabot.
Invisalign is designed to bring little to no disruptions into your everyday life. However, like any other treatment, expect minor changes when you start Invisalign treatment.
You’ll experience some mild soreness and tenderness in the first few days. This happens because Invisalign moves your teeth position, which causes discomfort. Your natural speech will be affected as your mouth gets used to the trays. The good news is that these will only last a few days.
Besides the adjustment period, expect an event-free life with Invisalign. You’ll brush and floss your teeth as you usually do. All you need to do is remove your aligners and put them back after cleaning your teeth. Similarly, Invisalign doesn’t affect your dietary choices. Since the aligners are removable, you can enjoy virtually every delicacy, including popcorn, nuts, and other sticky foods off the limit for brace users.
Maintaining your Invisalign trays isn’t cumbersome and seamlessly fits into your everyday oral hygiene routine. After wearing them:
- Wash your trays with warm, salt water to remove saliva and harmful bacteria.
- Never use hot water as it can warp your plastic trays.
- Brush your trays with a soft-bristled toothbrush and fluoride toothpaste.
- When not in use, store your aligners in a dry case.
Invisalign treatment requires 12-18 months, although mild cases can be addressed within a year. After your treatment, your Manakin-Sabot, Virginia, dentist may recommend wearing a retainer to prevent the teeth from shifting back into their old positions. You may wear a retainer full-time for the first 2-6 months and then revert to nightly wear afterward.
Design your smile with Invisalign software
Dr. Mechi from Gland Dentistry explains how Invisalign works. They submit scanners and pictures to Invisalign, which uses a program called ClinCheck to simulate and examine the movement of teeth. Dr. Mechi demonstrates the process on a patient’s upper and lower jaw, showing how each tray moves the teeth about two tenths of a millimeter. The whole process usually involves 18 trays. The simulation reveals that certain teeth will rotate, while others will move up or down. Dr. Mechi thanks Dr. Murie Guch and Dentistry for their support.
Ongoing Invisalign Process Explained by Dr. Murchie
Hey, this is Dr. Murie Gland Dentistry. How are you doing today? We’ve got one of our best Invisalign patients of all time with us, Denise. We’re going to show you what we do when we do an Invisalign check. So the first thing we do is we look and we kind of make sure that the trays are fitting her teeth very nicely, which they are. She’s really doing an excellent, excellent job taking care of things. Her teeth are very clean and she’s been brushing and flossing and the trays fit very well, so I’m very proud of her. Then let me show you over here. This is our software that we use called ClinCheck, and this little bar shows you where Denise started out and she currently is on tray number 10 and you can kind of see how the teeth have moved and I visually use that as a reference to see where she is compared to the original plan. And this over here shows you kind of where we’re going to be at the very end. We’ve got some cool soft little thing we can add here. The blue shows you where her teeth were at the beginning,
And it shows you that we’ve moved some of the teeth there and it moves it forward, and that’s where she is right now. So thank you very much. Have a good day.
Our Hygienist's Invisalign Journey
Hey, this is Dr. Mechi. We’ve got one of our fantastic hygienist, Christine, with us. And when did you start today?
I started in misalign today.
So how was the process? How did it go?
It was very easy process. I tape put my trays on and it was very easy.
What are you expecting in the next week?
I’m expecting to be able to talk very, very well, and I don’t expecting any pain or discomfort. Everything feels great right now.
That’s cool. Well, thank you very much.
Thank you.
The Installation Process of Invisalign Trays
Today we’re going to be adding some attachments on Ms. Sam’s teeth here and getting her set to start her Invisalign treatment with her aligners as she’s going to wear, which are a step process every two weeks she will change her aligners. Now we’re going to put some ET here. We are going to et your teeth first here. Next we are going to add some bonding here to those cheap that we just etched. Okay, now we’re about light the blonde. And now we add this flow into the tray to make the attachments. Just some pressure there. Okay, let’s see. Now we should have the attachments bonded on to your teeth and Walla. Voila.
Okay, so just done with Dr. Murie and Denise, putting my attachments on. And so I’m getting ready to put in my first set of trays with NoviSign. So I’ve tried other systems before and I can tell you already that the procedure so far was much smoother. Even my attachments in my mouth are smoother. I can tell they’re not rubbing my lips the way that the other ones were. So I’m going to go ahead and stack my trees in and they’ll fit pretty stuck in the beginning. So just be aware. Snaps right in, fits like a glove, so you can definitely feel indifference when you put ’em in the first time. And it will take a little bit getting used to when you’re talking, but overall very smooth. Feels great for the first visit.
Okay, so I have Sam here and she just started her Invisalign and we have this device here, what is called a munchie. This device helps you to seat your liners along with massaging your gums as well. Now on these munchies, there’s two different little notches on them. So I’m going to show Sam how to use this munchie to help her stimulate her gums to move her teeth. So we have this big notch here for the upper teeth. So what she’s going to do is she’s going to open and around the incisal, she’s going to squeeze. And you’re just going to go around each tooth and bite down, bite, squeeze there, go open, squeeze, open, squeeze and open and cut. And same thing for the lower. We have a little small notch down here on the bottom that she’ll take around and bite down. Open bite, open bite. And you want to do this for top and bottom for at least five minutes. Now, you also too, on the munchie, you have this little notch. It is a little rubber notch that you can use for your canine. So you just bite and squeeze, open, bite, and squeeze.
And this is how we use our munchie and do this once a day. Denise? Yes, you want to do this once a day for five minutes. Top and bottom. Yay. Thanks.
Use of Invisalign
munchies
Hey, this is Dr. Mechi. I want to talk about something we use with Invisalign called Munchies. There’s these little rubber star shaped devices and they help seat your trays, and they keep the teeth moving and they seat the trays so that the teeth move effectively. So Lisa’s going to show you how to use it
Every morning. When I put my trays in, what I immediately do is take the munchie and I have the little end. It has the little hole in it, and I immediately use that on the incisors. So then the next thing I’ll do is go ahead and seat everything else. So for the top teeth, I just go along quickly and it makes everything feel like it’s tighter on my teeth. And then I do the same thing on the bottom. This also relieves pressure when I first put in my new set of trays each week or every other week, so that it kind of relieves that pressure and it makes everything feel like it sets in place easier.
Thank you. This has been a Munchy madness Minute.
Our patient speaks about her Invisalign journey.
Dr. Murchie: Hi Sasha, how are you today?
Sasha: Hello, Dr. Murchie.
Dr. Murchie: We just wanted to, we know today you’re finishing up your Invisalign, you were just really thrilled about it. Tell us about what your experience was like.
Sasha: Well, I had a couple of teeth that were going down in the very bottom that were really bothering me so I just wanted to make sure that the teeth down here would come up, and then during the process of the last ten months totally changed my face and my teeth look like they did when I was 20.
Dr. Murchie: Well that is, that’s exciting.
Sasha: Very exciting!
Dr. Murchie: Would you do it again?
Sasha: Absolutely very easy.
Dr. Murchie: Good for you.
Sasha: I love the staff, everyone here is very friendly and helpful.
Dr. Murchie: Oh well, thank you so much, it’s been a pleasure working with you.
Sasha: Thank you.