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[quote=Anonymous]I totally hear you… the orthodontists and dentists just do NOT understand when you say something is impossible. It is so invalidating and frustrating. I have no perfect ideas. My ASD child with a bad gag reflex did Invisalign. The ortho office trimmed down his alignments in the back so that he didn’t gag - this was true for the whole course of treatment. Also, first week of Invisalign was horrrrrrible but he did get used to it and do a decent job with it. We’re at the end of the treatment now. He did not need palate expansion. But I will say that for his sister, who did need some (though not a ton) of palate expansion, we did 3M’s version of Invisalign, starting at age 8, per the orthodontist. It’s a firmer/thicker plastic compared to Invisalign, but really similar. And to the wearer, the experience was the same as Invisalign. You can ask about that.[/quote]
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