My initial Invisalign treatment consisted of approximately 30 trays (invisible aligners) for a total of $5,000, covering all expenses. However, after completing the 30th aligner, my dentist determined that I required additional aligners. Today, approaching my 45th aligner, but it didn't incur any additional charges for the extra aligners. I'm curious about the reason behind not having to pay more.
During each monthly visit, the dentist evaluates my progress by conducting scans (done by the intern) and occasionally cleaning my teeth. The process was quite straightforward, and appears to be much simpler compared to making adjustments for traditional braces.
I'm interested in finding real cost for Invisalign trays and what share get the dentist
I developed tinnitus a month ago after a flight. I was sick and coughing right after the plane, but this time, I didn't equalize the pressure in my ears as I usually do. A day later, I noticed the tinnitus. Two weeks ago, I went to see an ENT doctor who prescribed steroids and medication to improve blood circulation around my ear for two weeks. He said it might be because of the flight, and I should try to get rid of it as soon as possible, otherwise my brain would think this is the "new normal".
I think now the condition is better. Now hear the ringing sound from time to time, not every night, but sometimes during the day when I get tired, angry, or think about it. I hope this condition goes away soon.
I had this exact same issue. Always had a mild tinnitus but a new prominent tone developed after a severe ear infection resulting from the same lack of equalization. It was a real rough few months. It got a little better. Then randomly a few years later that prominent tone just kind of disappeared one day. Now I’m back to baseline where it has to be extremely quiet for me to hear my tinnitus. Hearing is weird, just have patience
Is it actually gone, or do you just don't think about it? I have a quite loud tinnitus at 9 kHz but I still don't even think about it for stretches of weeks and even months. But when I'm made aware of it it's always there (even if there is loud background noise)
I've recently switched to the handheld ones because the seat attachments require you to shift your butt around to catch the stream. Friends seem to be more weirded out by this one though.
Having my tongue rest on the bottom of your mouth.
Proper tongue positioning is when you rest your tongue on the roof of the mouth and away from the teeth.
It's been 2 years I've been "mewing"[1]. A good side effect for me: Now I stop snoring and I believe I have better posture. Some claim that it will improve your jawline but not for me, I guess I started too late. If I had started in my teen, I believe I would have had a great face today ?
[1] Check youtube videos for "mewing" or lookup JawHacks videos
”Mewing” is just normal tongue posture. It will not improve your jawline. Usually it’s the reverse: if you need to “mew” / put your tongue on the roof of your mouth consciously and if you naturally snores it’s because of a problem.
Problem that is often genetic or more rarely that appeared during your development: either your face lacks forward projection or a part only is recessed (malocclusion: your upper and lower teeth don’t perfectly fit).
The only way to definitively cure it is to go through an orthognatic surgery. If not treated it might evolves into sleep apnea as you are getting older. You should check with an orthodontist or a maxillo-facial surgeon to make sure that’s what your are suffering from.
If your are lucky like me, ie you have enough projection and no malocclusion, a genioplasty might be sufficient to naturally seal your lips without muscle contraction by bringing them closer. In my case it’s what created the pressure differential needed for my tongue to stay in the roof of my mouth. If you are unlucky a BSSO, a Lefort I or both (Bimax) might be necessary. Some extreme cases might even require the three surgeries.
While genetic/heritable factors play a role, the evidence is overwhelming that the main cause is weak jaw muscles and improper resting posture during childhood, due to soft diets and allergies.
I'd also like to add that even in absence of sleep apnea, Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome, where the airway collapses but the body partially wakes up before it progresses into an apnea, is likely, and often missed by diagnostics.
In general, maxillomandibular advancement is always more effective than genioglossus advancement during genio.
The risk scales with BSSO distance, surgeon expertise(both quality of work, and especially how long the operation takes).
I wish more research was conducted into improving nerve healing using administration of stuff like Cerebrolysin, other neurotrophic, or cellular stress therapy - e.g. in fat transplantation, pre-op suction promotes vascularization and local growth factor release, dramatically improving fat graft survival rates, in skin/hair, microneedling works wonders through local growth factor release. Could we do the same to the nerves?
I'd not heard of this and so googled mewing. The first link[0] seems to imply that the research into it is somewhat lacking (or shows there to be no effect), and that the guy that invented it had his license stripped.
I assume now you have anecdotal evidence of it working for you for snoring, but what made you think it would work in the first place?
I also wrote about it. It’s connected to „infantile swallowing”. Seems like 3-4 year old child should change tongue placement but if you have alergy and runny nose then you might never learn it.
I suspect that for me it switched back later as I was very good in long distance running as kid and after one time beeing sick I never recovered to my previous form. It never occured to me that it was tongue placement :(
Requesting a domain name just in case: would love a domain name for a side project:
It will allow users to list what they own (maybe a photo or video, idk yet), and they'll be able to consult it, but other people can also check what they have.
breakingandentering.com or ilovereplacingmybrokenwindows.com or anentirecatalogueoffreestufftosteal.com?
What would be the purpose of your side project? I'm very confused by it. Not trying to be disrespectful, but it just sounds like an easy way to case a home for a burglary.
I have over a hundred board and card games... Total value on resell market is not that great (especially factoring the value per trip into the house, and relative low value per cubic foot of storage it claims in your car/van)... but having such a list outside google sheets would be helpful.. tells people what we already have if they want to gift items, could have running discussions on games, etc.
