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If you’re in WD6 and weighing up a fifteen-minute drive, the fair question is: what does Invisalign actually ask of me, and is it worth the trip? Here’s the unvarnished version.

The number that matters is 20–22 hours a day. Not “most of the day.” Aligners work by applying continuous gentle force; take them out for a long lunch and a long dinner and a couple of coffees, and you’ve lost the force for hours, and the teeth simply don’t move on schedule. The people whose treatment overruns are almost always the people who wore them less than they said they did.

Practically, this means: they come out to eat and to drink anything other than water, then teeth get brushed and the aligners go straight back in. That’s a genuine change to how you snack. It’s the single biggest lifestyle adjustment, and it’s the one most people underestimate.

You’ll change aligners at home roughly weekly. In-practice reviews come around every six to eight weeks, and they’re short — ten or fifteen minutes to check tracking and hand over the next batch.

For a Borehamwood or Elstree patient, that’s the whole logistical question, and we handle it deliberately: we’ll give you several sets of aligners at a time where the case allows, put your reviews on a Saturday or Sunday, and batch anything else you need — a hygiene appointment, a check-up — into the same visit. Across a nine-month case that’s a handful of trips down the A5, not a weekly commute.

• Attachments. Small tooth-coloured bumps bonded to some teeth so the aligners have something to grip and can perform rotations. They’re removed at the end. They are visible close up — this is the thing patients are most often surprised by.
• IPR. Polishing a fraction of a millimetre of enamel between teeth to create space for them to move into. Painless, safe, standard, and far preferable to extracting a tooth — but you deserve to know it’s in the plan.
• A lisp, for about a week. Then it goes.
• Retainers, for life. Not optional. We include both removable and fixed.

The consultation and the iTero 3D scan are free — the scan alone is worth £250. Five minutes with a wand, no impression putty, and you watch a simulation of your own teeth moving to their final position. If you don’t think that result is worth £1,495, you drive home having spent nothing.

That’s the honest pitch for the fifteen-minute journey: see the outcome first, decide second.

• ✓  Free consultation and iTero 3D scan — worth £250, with a simulation of your possible result before you commit anything.
• ✓  Fifteen minutes down the A5 — or the 292 bus through to Edgware, with weekend appointments available.
• ✓  Reviews batched onto a Saturday or Sunday — several sets of aligners at a time where the case allows, with hygiene or check-up appointments folded into the same visit.
• ✓  Three fixed tiers, quoted upfront — £1,495, £2,495 or £2,995, or from £33.94 a month over 60 months at 12.9% APR.
• ✓  Retainers included, removable and fixed — plus, this summer, an Airflow hygiene clean and Boutique whitening: a bundle worth over £750.

Finance from Tabeo on treatments over £250: 0% APR over up to 10 months, 9.9% APR over 12 to 18 months, and 12.9% APR over 24 to 60 months. This summer: removable and fixed retainers, an Airflow hygiene clean and Boutique whitening included — a bundle worth over £750.

Representative example: Invisalign Go at £2,495 over 60 months at 12.9% APR (fixed) = £56.64 per month. Total amount repayable £3,398.48. Total interest £903.48. Finance provided by Tabeo, subject to status. Cherry Dental Ltd trading as Toothi is a credit broker, not a lender, and is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FRN 957242).

Full fee guide → · Finance by Tabeo, subject to status, on treatments over £250.

Fifteen minutes straight down the A5 or A41 — or the 292 bus through to Edgware.

Toothi · 1 Handel Parade, Whitchurch Lane, Edgware, London HA8 6LD — two minutes from Edgware Station. Directions →

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday: 9am–6pm
Thursday: 9am–12pm
Saturday: 9am–5pm
Sunday: 10am–5pm

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