Well, I promised to be honest with myself about the process. Right now, I'm feeling a bit sorry for myself and wondering whether invisalign was a mistake.
Tonight, I went in and got my attachments. I have 9 in total - 5 on the bottom, 4 on top. It actually wasn't a hard or long process. They etched the teeth with a bit of acid, then applied the bonding material. Then, with a template tray, they filled the button holes with composite material. They put the tray on and cured the bottons with a blue light. Afterwards, they pulled off the template trays (with a certain amount of prying) and polished around the attachments to take off the extra composite. Then, they snapped on the real trays.
On the up side, they're a lot tighter than they were before. That seems like a good thing, since obviously they're working and moving my teeth around. On the down side, they're tight and it's really hard to get the trays off. I'm seriously scared of hurting my teeth or pulling one of them off. I'm kind of wondering whether I can avoid taking them out for the next 9 months. Clearly not realistic since a girl's gotta eat, but it kind of feels like that.
I'll update in a couple days when I'm not feeling quite so sorry for myself. Plus, my dentist insists that this feeling only lasts a couple days. Hopefully she's right.
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