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- Hi Youtube friends!
I hope you're having an amazing New Year,
I wanted to start off the new year with a request video.
A lot of you have noticed my teeth transformation,
so I am here to talk about it.
First of all, I'm gonna talk about my oral hygiene
'cause I think it's really important to talk about that,
and then I'm gonna be talking about Invisalign,
and my experience with that, and then I'll move on to Zoom
and then Veneers, and so let's go ahead
and get started with oral hygiene.
As far as toothpastes go, I am not very picky,
I use any toothpaste out there,
and I like to clip coupons on Sundays from the Sunday paper,
so once I have a 75 cent off coupon
I'll go to the grocery store and I'll use, you know, Colgate
and if Crest has a 50 cent off coupon I'll use Crest.
But as far as floss, I noticed since I have
had Veneers and also even Invisalign,
my teeth are really crowded so it's really hard to floss
and regular floss makes my gums bleed,
so when I use Glide it works better.
So I like to use Tom's, which is a very fresh
type of mouthwash without the alcohol.
There's a lot of gunk that is stuck in the tongue
that causes a lot of bad breath,
so I use a tongue scraper, I think it's important,
and back in the day I would use a manual toothbrush
'cause I thought that that was fine,
and I would replace it, like, you know, every month.
And my dentist actually recommended
that I get an electric toothbrush.
So now I use a Dazzlepro electric toothbrush,
and it actually has been the best thing I've ever done.
It has a timer, and I can brush my teeth for two minutes
and it turns off automatically after two minutes.
That way I won't have to, like, set a timer
or know if I brushed my teeth for two minutes or not
because it's recommended that you do
brush your teeth for two minutes.
And I like that my toothbrush has a setting,
it has like a slow, medium, and high setting
so you can brush your teeth like insanely fast or do it slow
I like that it has intensity settings.
And also my favorite part is that it has a UV light
like a bucket in the back of it,
where you can sanitize your toothbrush heads
every single time for seven minutes
and it kills rid of 99.9% of bacteria and germs
which is an amazing thing, and a lot of people don't know
that you're supposed to sanitize your toothbrushes.
I never really used electric toothbrush until now,
but I love it because my teeth feel
so clean after I brush my teeth,
I just wanna do this, you know, like touch it
with your tongue, because it's so smooth
it's like you went to the dentist
and got it professionally clean.
That's how it feels every time,
and it doesn't feel like that with a manual toothbrush.
Which is really awesome.
So moving on to Invisalign.
So you know I started working as a teacher
and I didn't make a lot of money as a teacher
it's common knowledge that these teacher,
they don't make a lot of money,
so you know I would set aside some money
every month to be able to pay for Invisalign.
And at the time, Invisalign for me and my severity
and how crooked my teeth were was $5,500.
Now I see them for around $3,000
because they're not as new as when I got them
and so I'm just gonna go ahead and walk you
through the steps on how I got Invisalign.
So I went to my dentist and I got a consultation,
and they told me that I could get Invisalign.
So after you get your first consultation
they take a mold of your tooth,
and then they take that clay mold
and they send it to a lab,
and the lab creates these plastic aligners
that are called Invisalign aligners
and you can remove them when you eat, which is a bonus,
but you're supposed to have them on
for 22 out of 24 hours of the day, which I think
in my personal experience is nearly impossible
because I'm a slow eater.
So I had it for, like I had mine on
for maybe 20 out of the 24 hours.
And also you have to bring a toothbrush and a toothpaste
with you everywhere you go,
'cause after you eat you have to brush your teeth
before you put on your Invisaligns,
oh and bring your floss too.
So that was not that great, Invisalign was a lot
of hard work and you have to visit your dentist
as much as you do a regular orthodontist for braces
because you don't get your Invisalign aligners,
like, they don't hand you all the sets,
you have to go every two weeks or every four weeks
to see the progress, and then they're gonna add
more bumps to it.
So they place these bumps on your teeth
and that'll adhere to the plastic aligners
and then you wear the aligners,
and the aligners are so painful.
And every two weeks you change your plastic aligners,
and you put on a new one, and it moves your teeth
slowly but surely to kind of straighten it.
After the 13th week or the 13th treatment,
my treatment was over, and my teeth were
still extremely crooked.
There wasn't much that went on
with the crooked tooth on the front.
Since Invisalign didn't work for me,
I decided to get Veneers.
Veneers are extremely expensive,
they're about $1200 per tooth,
but since my dentist knew that Invisalign
didn't work for me twice, she gave me a discount
and charged me $1000 per tooth.
I'm gonna go ahead and talk about that.
but first what they did, is they gave me
Zoom teeth whitening for free,
I think they did that 'cause they felt sorry
for me that Invisalign didn't work.
And what Zoom is, it's a professional teeth whitening,
so they open your mouth really big
and they put this thing on you
and it makes your mouth like really big and open,
and then they put gel on your teeth
and they whiten your teeth with the gel,
and then there's like a UV light,
and they do it for 15 minute intervals
and I was scared at first, 'cause I have had friends
that had, you know, Zoom whitening
and they were telling me how painful it is.
But after like, you know, four treatments
of the 15 minute intervals it was an hour,
and I had felt no pain.
But when I was drinking some water afterwards
there was some sensitivity there,
but my teeth were so white.
Like, they were like yellow, to white.
So like the before and after is ridiculous.
And then after getting my teeth whitened,
they kinda like matched the shade,
and they matched it to a shade called B1,
which is the whitest shade you can get for natural Veneers.
So moving on to Veneers now.
So when I got Veneers, my dentist told me
that the whitest shade was B1.
But that's not true, because I did some research
after I got Veneers, and I found out that
there's a bleach line, they're called BL shades,
and they're like the really crazy white shades.
But my dentist didn't tell me that there was,
that that option was available,
so I got B1, which is a natural white.
It's not, like, ridiculously white,
but it's, you know, a natural person's white.
You know, not like a really crazy,
celebrity white white, like Ross-white in Friends white,
if you guys watch that show.
And so with Veneers, they go ahead
and get a molding of your teeth
and then they send it to the lab
and then you get these temporary Veneers
that you wear for two weeks.
What they do is, they drill your teeth
so Veneers is a permanent decision.
You cannot ever go back to your old teeth,
it's permanent, it's a lifelong permanent decision,
and so I want you guys to know that.
So they drill your teeth to really really small stubs,
and you get a lot of anesthesia.
The procedure takes almost two hours,
and it's extremely painful, and the anesthesia
wore off for me, so they had to do it so many times
I swear it was like 10 to 15 shots of anesthesia.
But after you get the anesthesia,
you know, it numbs up, but the numbness goes away
after, you know, 30 minutes, or for my case it did,
so they had to shoot up a lot of anesthesia.
But after that, you know, they do,
after they drill the little stubs,
and your teeth are left to little stubs,
they put the temporary Veneers.
And the temporary Veneer, the adhesive isn't as strong,
so when I left, my teeth chipped right away
and they couldn't really mend it.
So I had to wait two weeks, and walk around two weeks
with like a chipped looking tooth.
Then I went back and I got permanent Veneers,
and what they do is, they give you
more local anesthesia all over,
they give you shots everywhere,
and then they use like this hammer
and they hammer off the temporary ones.
It's crazy, they hammer it off and remove the temporary ones
and after they remove the temporary ones
they put on your permanent, porcelain Veneers
which is a whiter shade of white than your temporaries,
and they glue it on with a really sticky adhesive
and they use a light to keep the glue on
and it takes less than two hours.
The temporary Veneer procedure,
when they had to drill the teeth, was like two hours.
And then the second time around
when you get your permanent Veneers
it's around an hour long.
But after that, you know, your teeth are perfectly perfect
and they're exactly the way you had asked for.
So when I first saw it my teeth were really long,
they got me really long Veneers, and I was,
I asked them to kind of like shave it down.
And my dentist was all about making my Veneers
look like they were "naturally mine" and not fake
so they still look like they're mine
because they have imperfections like a real person would,
'cause real people don't have perfectly, perfectly
straight, like, straight, you know, teeth.
They have, you know, shape, and personality to them
so my dentist did that to me, he made this tooth shorter,
he made this tooth longer, and it's not supposed to look
like they're fake, but they are,
because I'm telling you guys they are.
But it's supposed to look like you were born
with these teeth, and the only thing
that I am extremely unpleasantly
disappointed about having Veneers,
is that my teeth are so sensitive to cold and hot.
I actually called my dentist, and they told me
that I had to get a root canal for the whole area.
So that might happen to you guys
if you get Veneers and your teeth
are extremely sensitive to colds,
cold food, cold drinks, you might have to get a root canal.
I don't ever plan to get my root canal yet,
but I might have to if it becomes as severe.
Here is my before and after with Invisalign, to Veneers.
As you can see, my Invisalign teeth were a lot whiter,
those were my natural teeth that were whitened by Zoom.
And then with my Veneers they're a little yellow,
and Veneers can't be whitened, unfortunately,
so I can never get them any whiter than what they are.
And they are the B1 shade, which is supposed to be
the whitest natural shade in the teeth line.
I wish I got the bleach line, that's kinda new,
but my dentist didn't give me that option
so I'm left with this shade, I can never whiten it,
which is really sad 'cause I love white teeth.
But overall I'm really happy with my teeth transformation
and here is a picture of my before picture before everything
and this is my after.
That was quite a transformation,
and I'm really happy I did it.
It was extremely expensive, I think it was
I think it was around $10,000
for my whole teeth transformation,
and I know you guys are thinking
that's a crazy amount of money to spend on teeth,
but it meant a lot to me, I really love
having, you know, better teeth.
I have more confidence, I talk more with my teeth showing,
I don't like do this anymore, and I'm just really grateful
that I finally got my teeth fixed.
And, you know, at the time I was a struggling teacher
but I managed to, you know, save every single month
to get this, to make this happen,
because it's been a dream of mine to finally fix my teeth.
So if you ever feel discouraged
that you can't afford to fix your teeth, you can
if you save up every single month, little bit little.
So thank you friends so much for watching,
I hope this video was helpful.
If you have anymore questions about Invisalign,
Zoom teeth whitening, Veneer, let me know
and I will happily answer them.
Thank you so much for watching,
I hope that you subscribe,
and I'll see you in my very next video!
Bye!