Time for appointment: 10 minutes-30 minutes

QUICK LOOK AT RETAINER SEAT APPOINTMENT

We will have you place your retainers in to make sure they fit, as long as they do that should be it for the appointment. Please remember the key points listed below about your retainers. If you chose to go with Vivera retainers, know that if and when you go to the next set they will initially feel tight, this is because you have stretched the previous retainer. Do not worry all 4 sets of upper and lowers are the same

Retainers are for life. For the first six months you’ll wear them just like your trays, only you don’t eat in them. The reason you wear them for six months after treatment is when moving teeth, you move through bone, therefore bone has to fill in where the tooth moved from. The process of bone filing in takes about six months, if you only wear them at night your teeth WILL move during the day and at night you will move them back with the retainer, so the bone never fully fills in. After six months you wear them at night. We recommend replacing your retainer every 2 years as they stretch out and wear out.

RETAINER COMMITMENT