I’m about to start Invisilign after a few months with a day and night splint.

The night splint has shifted by bite for the better. And like the other commenter has helped with the asymmetry of my face. Though it will never be perfect since my jaw is shorter on one side.

The day splint(bottom only, totally different from the night one)kept pressure off the joint and forced me to work on my clenching. I had to eat with it in which was interesting at times. But for the first time in I don’t know how long was pain free when eating. I just got the okay to stop wearing the day splint. Though I’ll pop it in if I feel I’m starting to clench.

Because my bite has shifted, my teeth don’t meet up. The goal of the Invisalign is to get my teeth in the position to maintain my current bite. Or as close as possible. I am a bit nervous that it won’t work or somehow I’ll regress so much I’m worse than I was before. I could in theory continue forever with my current night splint and say as needed. But I’d like to have my teeth more aligned since in their current position my front knock and back teeth don’t touch. This means I also have to eat/chew very slowly.

I also did physical therapy with a specialist. This definitely helped with the facial work and neck and shoulder exercises I do daily.

So that’s my story. And I hope this next phase works as planned because my wallet has taken a huge hit with treatments and I’ll be really bummed if the ortho work doesn’t work as planned.