Are clear aligners more expensive than other treatment

  • Are clear aligners more expensive than other treatment- While considering teeth straightening options, many patients want to know are aligners expensive than braces?
  • Cost of aligner treatment varies in different patients according to simple or severe cases and duration also. but slightly higher than traditional braces.
  • Aligner cost is similar to braces in simple or mild cases.
  • Treatment time is increases, it may one or two years, as issue become more extensive.
  • Orthodontists requires lots of time and adjustment because they don’t just deal with tooth alignment, they also deal with skeletal or jaw misalignment issues.
  • For straightening of teeth, aligner and braces work applying pressure on teeth.
  • In case of aligners, plastic material is used on outside of tooth for applying forces while in case of braces, wire is used with small brackets glued on front surface of individual tooth. 
  • Clear Aligners are more expensive than other orthodontic treatment are given below.
  •  The metal wires on braces are tightened weeks every four to six, unlike aligners, which are adjusted every one to two weeks.
  • You need to tightened wire every time, it apply lots of pressure on tooth for alignment and pressure may goes away in 48 hours.
  • Clear aligners are changed in every 15 days, you don’t feel as much pressure like braces because tooth movement is small and more gradually process.
  • Although, lingual braces treatment is cheaper and same as invisible like aligner.
  • Unlike aligners, it has various disadvantages:
  • It causes difficulty with speech. Since, brackets cause soreness and discomfort to your to tongue because they are placed on backside of your teeth.
  • Due to tongue movements frequent breakage of brackets can happen.
  • For lingual braces, you need visit dental clinic in every 2 weeks while for aligners it can be 6 – 8 weeks.
  • That being said, aligners having various advantages and advanced 3D technology compared to braces therefore added cost well worth it.

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