Invisalign® Clear Aligners

A series of clear, removable aligners that straighten teeth without brackets or wires. Planned and monitored by a specialist orthodontist, from your first X-ray through to your final retainer review.

Close-up of a woman fitting a clear aligner over her top teeth
THE PROCESS

How Invisalign Treatment Works With Us

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Initial appointment

We assess your teeth, jaw and bite, take a panoramic X-ray, and tell you whether aligners will get you where you want to be. Allow half an hour. This appointment costs $150.

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Records and plan

Photographs, X-rays and impressions let us build your plan. At your following visit you get the plan itself and a written quote, with nothing to sign on the spot. This appointment costs $350.

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Wear your aligners

Aligners come out to eat and to brush, and go back in for around 22 hours a day. You move to the next set on the schedule your specialist sets, with check ins every six to eight weeks.

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Retainers

Your result is held with retainers fitted at the end of treatment, plus complimentary review visits for two years.

THE SMILE GALLERY

Real Results from Our Patients

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Fk Start Centre

BEFORE & AFTER

Prominent Teeth

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Tg Start

BEFORE & AFTER

Gap Teeth

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At Centre Start

BEFORE & AFTER

Impacted Teeth

What Does Invisalign Treatment Cost?

Every case is quoted individually, once we have your X-rays and records in front of us. Your first appointment costs $160, which covers the consultation, your X-ray, registration and any letters to other health practitioners. If treatment goes ahead, the records appointment is $350. Both are payable on the day.

  • A written quote presented before treatment starts
  • An initial fee when treatment begins, with the balance spread over 18 months
  • Retainers and two years of review visits included in the quote

TYPICAL INVISALIGN PLAN

$4500-$13,000 /per case

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Invisalign Questions

The aligners are clear and thin, so most people will not pick them up in conversation. Small tooth coloured attachments are sometimes bonded to teeth to help particular movements, and those are hard to spot too.

Around 22 hours. They come out to eat, to drink anything other than water, and to brush. Wear time is the single biggest factor in whether treatment finishes on schedule.

You will feel pressure and some tenderness for a day or two after moving to a new set. Most people describe it as tightness rather than pain, and it settles quickly.

Often, yes. It comes down to how much movement is needed and whether the aligners will be worn for the hours required. Your specialist will be straight with you about that at the first appointment.

Call us. Depending on where you are in the sequence you may go back to the previous set or move on early. Do not leave it, because teeth can drift back.

No. Some bites are better corrected with fixed braces, and your specialist will say so if that is the case for you. Metal braces and ceramic braces cover the same ground in a different way.
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