Do teeth straightening services like BestSmile, 4YouFirst and the like actually work? Take a selfie, make your own impressions, and your teeth-straightening aligners are sent straight to your door?
That already ignores the tooth decay, Problems with gums or temporomandibular joints. But there are even more serious treatment errors with the aligner do-it-yourself.
As a competence center for dentistry with specialists from all disciplines, we keep seeing patient cases where the supposedly cheap splints from BestSmile and 4YouFirst have not led to the desired result. Even hidden costs are not always immediately visible to patients. You can find more information about this below.
For a healthy tooth the pressure is from Aligners usually not a problem. The tooth is moved and grows into the new place by itself. If but Inflamed gums or gums unnoticed it can get critical. Bones and tissues can regress even further. If the regression is too strong, the tooth remains loosened and in the worst case can even fail. Even if splints permanently irritate the gumline, it hurts and can cause permanent damage.
This is why ZurichDental relies on Invisalign®: A system that has proven itself over decades and the dentist accompanies the tooth correction. Do-it-yourself with aligners? No thanks!
