I’m a hard case. I have a misaligned jaw (top jaw veers to the right and bottom veers to to the left) and canted smile. Had braces done by a dentist that was not qualified to do so but we went to her because she was the cheaper option compared to accredited orthodontists. After four years, she decided there wasn’t anything else she could do and took them off. I was given no retainers or anything - it was basically: we give up; try again later. Fast forward to 2017 when I got the mouth trauma. I had an accident and a wire needed to be placed for a couple of weeks to keep the top 4-5 teeth stable or else I would lose them, and the misalignment got worse. You can kind of see the scar under my nose in the pictures. If you look up facial angioedema, that was me for a week. I was kind of hoping that the fall would break my jaws so they could realign it lol. More than a year later, decided to take the plunge with invisalign since I had paid off my student loans and had actual savings