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Got to aligner pair #12 today, and a visit to the orthodontist. Sadly he has called time on this treatment plan - he doesn't think that the bone is there in the lower jaw to allow the lower incisors to keep coming forwards, so we took a new X-ray, new scans, and he's going to come up with a new plan. This one is likely to see me losing a pre-molar in order to make some room, and bringing the upper teeth back much further than we had originally planned.
It's been a really interesting experience so far, seeing the scanners, the aligners themselves, and I've been impressed with the professionalism of the orthodontist and his team.
This is where we started from:
This is where we were going too (mid year next year would have been the finish line):
And this is where we've got too, and then had to stop (for now):
To give a better understanding of how far the lower incisors were planned to move, here's the starting point from above:
Goal:
Start (black) with goal (white) in same image:
Where we got too:
It's disappointing, but better to stop now than to have my lower incisors literally fall out of my jaw.
It'll be interesting to see the next plan.