Royal Oak Dental Clinic

Invisalign is a clear aligner therapy that moves your teeth just like braces would. So we can use it to correct any dysfunction in your bite or align your teeth.

Invisalign® treatment starts working with the very first tray that you wear. By the time that you’ve gone through five aligners, so about the first 5 weeks of treatment, you are definitely going to notice a difference when you look at yourself in the mirror. That said, treatment times definitely vary depending on the extent of your treatment and can take up to 12 months.

Yes, you definitely sleep with your Invisalign aligners in. You actually need to wear them about 22 hours a day so that you can get full results from your aligners.

No, we’ve never seen a discoloration in people’s teeth. What will make your teeth change color is anything that you may eat or drink that causes staining or not taking care of your teeth properly. So you need to do a great job brushing and flossing and you won’t notice any color change in your teeth.

Invisalign® treatment can have a little bit of discomfort but not near as much as what we experience with braces. Typically what will happen is that the first few trays, people will report that there is a bit of discomfort with some of their teeth moving but once you get through those first couple of trays there’s usually no discomfort after that.

Clear aligners can cause a bit of a lisp to start with. There have definitely been reports of people noticing that when words have an ‘s’ in them, they do notice a bit of a lisp until their tongue gets used to the aligners.

Brushing your teeth is a great idea after you have eaten just so food debris doesn’t get caught between your teeth when you put them back in.

You can definitely wear your Invisalign aligners in the shower! And, honestly, you need to wear your aligners all the time except when you're eating and drinking anything but water.

Invisalign treatment is actually approximately the same cost as conventional braces, it just depends on the complexity of your case. Sometimes we’re actually able to charge less than what we would for braces.

The cost of Invisalign treatment definitely varies depending on the complexity of your treatment. It can start around $3000 up to $6500 in some cases. It’s best to book a complimentary consultation so that we can review all of your options together.

Often Invisalign treatment is covered by Insurance. What we need to look into is if you have orthodontic coverage. If you do, the insurance companies pay for that regardless if it's conventional braces or Invisalign treatment.

A crown is something that we use to protect your tooth to make it stronger. It is made typically of ceramic and is very “tooth-like” and natural. In order to place a crown over your tooth, we have to change the shape of your existing tooth to allow a ceramic to go overtop - so kind of like a top hat that would fit right over your tooth.

A same-day crown is such an amazing procedure. We use a technology called Cerec and it has been around for over 30 years now. It is an absolutely incredible technology that allows us to do a crown in one visit and you’re usually in the office for about an hour and a half. Whereas, traditionally, we would have to do what we call a temporary crown that you would wear for about two weeks and then come back in to have your final crown cemented. Because we’re not using a lab and we are making your crown in our own office, we’re able to provide you with your crown within your hour and a half appointment.

No, we actually charge the same amount for a same-day crown as we do for the ones that we have to send out to the lab.

Yes, you definitely can. It’s a bit of a longer procedure, but we can do both of those procedures at the office within the same appointment.