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How Invisalign became the biggest user of 3D printers

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Re: How Invisalign became the biggest user of 3D printers

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Post by y-curious »

tombert wrote: post #66
y-curious wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With sleep apnea, I highly recommend you look into myofunctional therapy, which is like airway physical therapy. (full disclosure, my mom is a myofunctional therapist). It worked for several friends; They still use their cpap but they get much better sleep after committing to a routine. Not advertising but spreading the word, find someone local!

I hadn't heard of this. I'll give it a look and see if I my insurance covers it...thanks!

If it doesn’t, you can try and find some free resources online. If you’re in NYC, my mom’s business is HappyMyo and you can tell her her son sent you from HN. Good luck and I hope it helps you, it sounded really hippie and lame when I heard the name but I’m a believer now.

Re: How Invisalign became the biggest user of 3D printers

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Post by tombert »

y-curious wrote: post #101
tombert wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hadn't heard of this. I'll give it a look and see if I my insurance covers it...thanks!

If it doesn’t, you can try and find some free resources online. If you’re in NYC, my mom’s business is HappyMyo and you can tell her her son sent you from HN. Good luck and I hope it helps you, it sounded really hippie and lame when I heard the name but I’m a believer now.

I do live in NYC and I actually did see that practice when I was searching. I might check it out though apparently my insurance will not cover it. I'll dig a bit further.

Re: How Invisalign became the biggest user of 3D printers

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Post by wisemang »

y-curious wrote: post #60
tombert wrote: post #28

Tangential, but I have sleep apnea. Fortunately I have it mild enough to get away with a mouthpiece instead of a CPAP (which is good anyway because I also have bruxism). The mouthpiece works great and I would recommend everyone get tested for sleep apnea if your insurance covers it, but I have to admit that paying for it bothered me. Even with insurance covering some of it, it cost me about $600. I know that there's…

With sleep apnea, I highly recommend you look into myofunctional therapy, which is like airway physical therapy. (full disclosure, my mom is a myofunctional therapist). It worked for several friends; They still use their cpap but they get much better sleep after committing to a routine. Not advertising but spreading the word, find someone local!

Or just take up the didgeridoo

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1360393/

Re: How Invisalign became the biggest user of 3D printers

#104

Post by Rohunyyy »

Gooblebrai wrote: post #95
darkpicnic wrote: post #90

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Just do what I did: ignore your orthodontist and wear them only at night, smashing them into your mouth like some kind of idiotic brute. 4 years later, great teeth!

I'll admit that I wore them less than indicated (but always at night) and doesn't seem to make much of a difference?

You teeth are literally being pushed to a new position. So if you dont use the braces for the "minimum" duration, you teeth may not be in a place where they need to be for the second set of braces to start working. So your 2nd braces are going to be pushing more and that might cause damage to your teeth/gums. Think of it like trying to do splits. If you have never done them ever before and you try to do them on your first try, then you gonna break whatever you have down there. But if you keep at it then day by day you will notice progress. The braces are like that. Each one eases you into the next stage if that makes sense.

Re: How Invisalign became the biggest user of 3D printers

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Post by bryceacc »

infinitewars wrote: post #64
leopld wrote: post #26

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Yes, the 12 billion dollar company must be doing something that no one needs.

If you look at places in the world where there are no dentists... their teeth are excellent. Anecdotally, our three boys all were told they MUST have braces (each for different reasons). We did this for exactly none of them. And their teeth came out perfect by adulthood.

I think your definition of excellent and perfect teeth is in reality just "perfectly adequate" for their job of eating. If you don't care about the optics of your smile then sure, your body is going to find a way to place your teeth and jaw so you can still eat...

Re: How Invisalign became the biggest user of 3D printers

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Post by gonzalohm »

LurkandComment wrote: post #65

1) Currently on invisign - mould 24 of 42 2) For 5k (Cdn) - I get 42 moulds, a method used to scan and submit my progress for each mould duration, feedback and advice from a dentist, a scan test to see who they fit 3) Considering the cost of braces and the flexibility these allow (as long as you are disciplined in wearing them) it's well worth it 4) My teeth were really misaligned. At 42 I just decided to do it so I…

Do you know what type of plastic they use? I have a 3D printer and I wouldn't want to put 3D printed stuff on my mouth. It's way too easy to end up with microplastics

Re: How Invisalign became the biggest user of 3D printers

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Post by baby »

tombert wrote: post #28

Tangential, but I have sleep apnea. Fortunately I have it mild enough to get away with a mouthpiece instead of a CPAP (which is good anyway because I also have bruxism). The mouthpiece works great and I would recommend everyone get tested for sleep apnea if your insurance covers it, but I have to admit that paying for it bothered me. Even with insurance covering some of it, it cost me about $600. I know that there's…

I have a MAD I got online as well and the experience is a bit subpar, lots of parts broke (the bands) and I can’t easily get replacements parts. My MAD also broke, and I can’t replace it easily (they sent me a new one but it doesn’t fit). They also are not testing me to see if there’s any difference (I think it works because I wake up less, and definitely wake up less to pee). Figuring out what band to use is also a esoteric process. It’s amazing that this exists besides a CPAP but we are really beta testers at this point. Oh and I learned later that they don’t replace your retainers

Re: How Invisalign became the biggest user of 3D printers

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Post by baby »

smithcoin wrote: post #106

Nobody tells you how much it hurts, but it’s worth it (just in the increase in dental hygiene alone in my case). For some reason now it’s assumed these were some kind of injection molding, but it makes perfect sense that it’s 3-D printed.

Didnt hurt much for me

Re: How Invisalign became the biggest user of 3D printers

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Post by jazzyjackson »

infinitewars wrote: post #64
leopld wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, the 12 billion dollar company must be doing something that no one needs.

If you look at places in the world where there are no dentists... their teeth are excellent. Anecdotally, our three boys all were told they MUST have braces (each for different reasons). We did this for exactly none of them. And their teeth came out perfect by adulthood.

Well there wouldn’t be much demand for dentists in places people have perfect teeth would there
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