PRODUCT:
Clear-Lock Retainers for Life™

SOURCE:
Glidewell Laboratories
Newport Beach, Calif.
866-497-3700
glidewelldental.com

I often get asked to make retainers for patients who don’t want to bother going back to their orthodontic office five years after their first appliance was made. Most of the time the patient’s teeth have slightly relapsed, and while he or she doesn’t care enough to have more ortho, the patient doesn’t want his or her teeth to get any worse. Thanks to Invisalign^®, patients now prefer clear retainers to the old pink acrylic and wire Hawley retainers many of us grew up with.

Glidewell started making clear retainers for dentists a few years ago. With the advent of CAD/CAM, the lab realized we could make multiple sets of retainers. This is especially practical when the patient loses or damages his or her retainer, which always happens. The lab now offers Clear-Lock Retainers for Life™, a service in which we send you either three single-arch retainers (three uppers or three lowers) or one set of three upper and three lower retainers to give to the patient. When all the retainers are lost or damaged, contact us and we will send you three more from our digitally stored data. It’s a great service that even your orthodontist doesn’t provide!