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A friend of mine with a sizable gap, bit otherwise straight teeth got Invisalign when she was in college. Her teeth are beautiful. Her initial traditional orthodontia treatment as a child did not permanently close her gap.

I did invisalign a couple years ago before my wedding and results are great. Are you positive you need to get your wisdom teeth out first? I had one dentist who did invisalign tell me I would, but then I never went through with it because I got laid off. When I found my orthodontist, she said she could do it without having them removed.

I think I ended up paying around $3k for everything. My insurance was good and paid half, and I had about $1500 in a flexible savings account that went towards it.

I absolutely would NOT do regular braces. I work in a professional environment and just could not do it. I'd have felt way too conspicuous.

I'm not gonna lie though - the process was really painful for me. I have a really sensitive mouth, and for months it was kinda tortuous. The only real benefit to braces (since I've done both now) is that once braces are on, they're on. Your mouth gets used to them. And every so often when the ortho tightens them, it's uncomfortable for a bit and then you get used to it again. With invisalign you are changing your trays every 2 weeks. You get really used to one set, and then by the time you don't notice any pain, it's time to change them again. Usually the first week of each set was agony for me. And you not only have pain when you first put them in, you're taking them in and out for meals several times a day, and putting them back.

But my teeth look great and I'm happy I did it.

I'm wondering about this too. My bottom teeth are really crooked (I never had braces). I always figured they were too bad for Invisalign, though I'd rather not have traditional braces.

@Pepper: This goes by REALLY fast, but if you pause at the beginning (or pause and back it up) you can see how crooked my teeth were. They mostly match what was planned, only I have one top tooth that's not *quite* as straight as the video, but I think that only me and my orthodontist would ever notice it. And it could've been completely perfect, I just didn't want to do the refinements process.

@ShootingStar: Wow that's really impressive! Thanks for sharing. Maybe I will look into it if they can make that big of a difference.