Originally Posted by sonofsam

Getting my teeth whitened this week. Yellowing of the teeth is common with braces because it's hard to clean your teeth properly with them on.... also flossing is a pain in the ass.

My ortho suggested giving my teeth a rest before getting the whitened immediately after they came off, so I'm going in the next few days

I actually opted against invisalign. Invisalign is great, but treatment time is usually double the time of normal braces because they can't move teeth as effectively


Damon braces is what i went with.. more expensive than traditional braces and about the same price as invisalign, but they don't have the elastics that traditional braces have and are really effective

invisalign treatment estimate was 26 months
damon estimate was 12 months so I just roughed it out for the faster option