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[Joyeuxjoel]

I have always had a small gap between my top front teeth. My teeth were perfectly straight until I was about 30. Since then, the top front two have moved inwards slightly. The edge of each tooth next to the gap has rotated inwards (if that makes sense?).

I was hoping to solve this through some composite bonding. However, my dentist has suggested either veneers (which she doesn’t really recommend) or a brace followed by composite bonding. As I only need to rectify movement in the front two teeth, would an Inman Aligner be suitable? If not, what would be the quickest solution? I am a teacher so I would prefer something that doesn’t affect my speech. In an ideal world, I want the quickest and most discreet solution, but I realise those two things might not be compatible.

Aligners would affect your speech for a few days when first fitted.
Invisalign would be the best way for a small discrepancy like this.
Then composite bonding over veneers for sure.

Reason being - composite bonding as an additive to teeth is completely reversible if you wanted it to be.

With veneers you have to take away a certain amount of millimetres of healthy tooth structure to make a veneer. If you have healthy teeth do not jeopardise that.

Although Invisalign would close the gap and you most likely won't need any composite bonding after treatment

That’s really useful, thanks. This is probably a piece of string question, but does Invisalign take a long time? Are we talking about months or more than a year?

I do have some enamel erosion by the way so I think the bonding was to rectify that too.

You're right with the piece of strong question. It really does depend on severity and whenever having teeth moved it is likely, although not always so, that they will need to move your lose teeth too, this is yo make sure you bite is correct and avoid problems with your jaw joints in future.

A severe case with Invisalign can take 2 ish years, but mild cases can take anywhere from around 6 months.

Thanks for replying!