Invisalign vs. Fingernails
There are several good things about Invisalign that go beyond merely straightening your crooked-ass teeth. One of these things is that it is physically impossible to bite your nails with the aligners in. I have bitten my nails for something like 20 years, and I have tried a bunch of ways to stop, like getting weekly manicures, painting my nails with polish that tastes like hot-pepper chemical ass, and just qutting cold turkey. None of them have worked.
But now I am simply incapable of biting my nails. It is just Not An Option. Score one for Invisalign!
But fingernails and Invisalign have a deeper, darker relationship than it might appear at first. In order to remove the aligners when you want to eat, brush your teeth, etc, you have to use your fingernails. When I first got the aligners and realized that I couldn’t bite my nails off I decided that I had better just clip them like a normal person.
I then tried to remove my aligners to eat, and found that I was incapable of doing so. Well, I suppose I should qualify that: I was incapable of doing so without shoving the remarkably hard plastic of the aligners underneath my nail beds, which, as you can imagine, feels absolutely lovely.
So a warning to those of you who are getting or have just gotten Invisalign: don’t clip your fingernails entirely off, or you will go through days and days of pain.
