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Do you wear Invisalign to sleep?
I am a 16 year old female. I want to know do you wear Invisalign to sleep?
7 Answers
Yes, 22hrs a day
Yes Invisalign is worn 21 hours 7 days a week. They are removed for 1 hour during meals.
Absolutely! Invisalign should be worn at all times except when you are eating, brushing and flossing. If you don’t consistently wear them your teeth will not move as planned and you will have a poor result. If you don’t think you can consistently do that, I recommend you get conventional braces instead.
Drew Shulman DMD, MAGD
Yes, and you wear it all the time except when you are eating.
Yes, absolutely - if you don't wear the aligners to bed, most of the movement that would have occurred during the day would be lost and the treatment would either be ruined entirely or require multiple corrections with new scans/impressions and redoing the aligner sequences. The closer to wearing them 100% of the time the better, except for eating and brushing/flossing. 22 hours a day is ideal.
Yes, 23 hours a day.
Yes you have to wear the aligners 20-22 hours per day.