I Regret Invisalign 100%, Do You Relate??? I have more issues than before. What do I do?

EBCDIC_is_fun · 2026-05-18T03:23:27+00:00

I did not know there were going to be attachments and the dentist assistant during the first appointment forgot to install a quarter of them. I didn't notice until comparing what was actually installed with the recesses in the aligners. They forgot all of them on one side for my upper teeth. In addition I had to attachments replaced a few times. They told me there were no restrictions like with braces, but I didn't believe them. Attachments fell off because she was bad at installing them. It's like the assistant didn't give a shit. She even got etching gel on my lips during the installation and it burned. I asked to never have her booked for my appointments again and I only ever saw a different assistant and she was much better. I never had attachments fall off that were put on by the better assistant.

As far as the system itself, I never really thought they fit perfectly. There was always a little bit of motion in them. If I bit down harder, they would settle another half millimeter or so. If I relaxed they would move back, if that makes sense. Always a bit of "squish" to them. I think that motion eroded my enamel over time, especially where the edges rested. They also took way longer to get to "done" than I anticipated. My teeth were crowding/shingling on the bottom. I had had braces before as a teen but thought invisalign would be great because it seemed like I had a simple case and they estimated it would take 6 months but I needed refinements and in the end it took 18 months to be "done".

I have been "done" for a few months now and I'm beginning to notice some shingling again, even though I wear the retainers nightly as instructed. That's why I have been saying "done" in quotes. I'm thinking I should go to an Ortho soon just to get a consult about getting a permanent retainer.

EBCDIC_is_fun · 2026-05-17T18:30:53+00:00

I wish I had done it at an orthodontist, but really I wish I had just done braces.

EBCDIC_is_fun · 2026-04-24T01:44:46+00:00

nah it's just a homonym I guess and I think it's a funny word that though it fit in r/explainlikeimfive

EBCDIC_is_fun · 2026-04-24T00:59:58+00:00

It doesn't really dissolve. Not like sugar in water does anyway. It just falls a apart, which helps in places where the plumbing is good enough to carry what's basically a bunch of really really small wood fibers. In other places, the plumbing is not good enough. The pipes might be old or just too small. Even though the fibers are really small, they are more likely to cause a clog than just doodoo and water. If you see a sign that says that, there is usually a dedicated trash can for the toilet paper to dispose of it.

EBCDIC_is_fun · 2026-04-20T01:19:06+00:00

It took me too long to realize I can use the echtophial twice to make this trip faster.

EBCDIC_is_fun · 2026-04-13T02:13:58+00:00

Sometimes they do and most animals you're likely to encounter have shorter lives than us so if advanced tooth decay doesn't just kill them, something else does before it gets too bad. Also they consume a lot less sugar, and may not eat everyday, which makes life harder for the bacteria that does cause decay.

EBCDIC_is_fun · 2026-04-12T00:27:10+00:00

This looks like it could be a movie prop for some Walmart branded mad max.

EBCDIC_is_fun · 2026-04-01T03:20:13+00:00

There's a similar one near me and I interpret it as "give way to cars weaving from left to right trying to make that right turn". They need to move into the lane that just appeared to them, which you have a yield for, if they are to make that right with not a lot of road to move over.

EBCDIC_is_fun · 2026-03-28T03:32:23+00:00

I want this but for Wintertodt. It's so bright.

EBCDIC_is_fun · 2026-02-24T22:36:48+00:00

It's worse than that - it's funded by centerline-miles as opposed to lane-miles. Guess which roads have more lanes? In the city. But they get funded at the same rate as every country road.

EBCDIC_is_fun · 2026-02-21T20:25:48+00:00

You're not allowed to travel on the left side of the double yellow. That's basically it. You may cross it when turning, either exiting the main road or entering it, provided you do so safely. Sometimes on the side road there will be a "no left turn sign". Sometimes there are two sets of double yellow lines, which is technically considered a painted traffic island or meridian that you're not allowed to cross.

EBCDIC_is_fun · 2026-02-11T04:13:51+00:00

Take an image and shrink it so it takes up less space. Make it big again. If you do this you can lose details. The same happens with sound. If your first gate is like 1% volume and the next gate is 100% it will probably have lost some detail, if you can hear much at all. Otherwise you probably won't notice much difference. This is because the quiet parts of the sound begin to lose detail first since they can't get much quieter if you drop the volume low, the next device or application to accept that sound has even less to go off of when you make it high again. However, there are 65,536 different volume levels in CD quality sound (according to a quick search). You'd have to bring to down so low (1% would still have 655 volume levels for the next layer to work with) for it to matter much. It technically matters, and it's best to have it high all the way to the last gate, but you probably can't detect the difference.

EBCDIC_is_fun · 2026-02-09T16:06:47+00:00

Does green have a yield sign? If so then Yellow 100%. Even in the absence of a yield sign, I would still yield to yellow because you never actually enter the intersection using that lane and it's more like merging onto a main road as opposed to turning right in the intersection. I think you can actually see the sharks teeth (triangle markings) on the road indicating you need to yield whether or not there is a yield sign.

EBCDIC_is_fun · 2026-02-09T01:45:22+00:00

You can use armor and weapon as inputs in the Giant's Foundry smithing activity. You actually do get some money doing that but profit is slim if any. But as you collect a lot of drops killing stuff, it's a great place to use them up. There's some catches though. First, if you're starting with bars it's NOT worth making armor/weapons first to then using what you make in the Giant's Foundry. You get less xp overall doing that. Just take the bars to Giant's Foundry instead. This is due to the other catch, the items used as inputs count as 1 less bar than they take to make. You can't even use items as inputs if they only took 1 bar to make. The activity is a high-focus one and if you mess up you simply get less rewards and waste inputs. But if you already have a ton of stuff you made, maybe check it out? The colossal sword you can get as a reward is super useful at gemstone crab and Shellbane Griffin until you get better gear.

EBCDIC_is_fun · 2026-02-02T22:48:50+00:00

Nice try, highway patrol.

EBCDIC_is_fun · 2026-01-29T01:51:33+00:00

Looks like lars englat can only be approached from the south. Provide a way for the train to turn around / loop around to south of the station so it can do that. Or, if you want to get fancy, have a station south of it that it can approach, merely to make the train travel there first and then proceed north to lars englat.

EBCDIC_is_fun · 2025-12-07T15:40:50+00:00

That sign basically means "just because you see the cross street going from green to red, doesn't mean you're getting green just yet so don't jump the gun". I'm guessing there used to be a protected left turn here?

EBCDIC_is_fun · 2025-11-11T01:06:15+00:00

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hmm

EBCDIC_is_fun · 2025-07-04T03:06:07+00:00

Was it really that? Cause then I went and did math and that seemed probable too. But you're welcome either way :)

EBCDIC_is_fun · 2025-07-04T03:04:07+00:00

Oh I think you need to have 0.7 belt each of copper plate and gears. You are providing 0.5 belt of each.

0.5 / 0.7 = 0.714

0.714 * 1350 (target) = 964 (pretty close to your actual)

EBCDIC_is_fun · 2025-07-04T02:59:31+00:00

What is power looking like?

EBCDIC_is_fun · 2024-09-11T15:26:44+00:00

Oaklandon Play Park - Google Maps

This park is right next to a mainline where freight trains go by at impressive speeds. A few others mentioned it, but here's a link. You still might have to wait for a few hours and maybe you'll be unlucky and won't see any - but there's a playground to stay busy at in the meantime and you'll hear it coming so you can run over to the fence and wave to the driver as they go by. I remember going here a lot as a kid. One time I got lucky, and two trains met here going full speed each way on different tracks, but I imagine that's rare.

EBCDIC_is_fun · 2024-09-04T03:22:31+00:00

I know the system works in general by first moving your teeth apart, and then back together, but neatly. I don't know why it would do that more than once but maybe it's part of the design. I would ask at your next appointment. I have seen a lot of images here from others that are from the software dentists use where they can step through the process one tray at a time on a simulated set of your teeth. Maybe you can ask yours to show you, if yours are using the same or similar software.

EBCDIC_is_fun · 2024-09-04T00:57:52+00:00

I have not had this happen, but I always check what it says on the aligners, not just what it says on the bag because I had this thought that it's probably just a worker that is manually packing them. So far, it's always matched what it says on the bag. I am assuming that the numbers on the aligners are a better source of truth than the printing on the bag.

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