Straighten your teeth without metal braces — free consultation, $500 off, and whitening when you finish.
Invisalign straightens teeth with a series of clear, removable aligners instead of brackets and wires. At DNTL SPOT in Hewlett, NY, Dr. Inessa Murdakhayeva and Dr. Regina Murdakhayeva plan every case digitally, so you can see a simulation of your finished smile before you commit to anything.
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A scan, a plan and a price before you commit to anything.
An itemized estimate with your insurance applied, before treatment starts.
Dr. Inessa and Dr. Regina treat you themselves, start to finish.
Teeth move when steady, gentle pressure is applied over time. Braces do this with a wire threaded through brackets. Invisalign does it with a sequence of custom-made plastic trays, each shaped slightly differently from the last.
We take a digital scan of your teeth — no impression putty — and use it to plan the whole movement from where your teeth are now to where they should end up. That plan is turned into a series of aligners. You wear each set for about one to two weeks, then swap to the next. Each tray moves specific teeth a fraction of a millimeter, and the cumulative effect over months is what straightens the arch.
Most cases also use attachments: small tooth-colored bumps bonded to certain teeth that give the aligner something to grip so it can rotate or upright a tooth rather than just tip it. They come off at the end and they are much less visible than brackets.
The American Dental Association is clear that orthodontic treatment of any kind should be planned and supervised by a dentist or orthodontist who examines you in person. That is the central difference between Invisalign in a dental office and the mail-order aligner companies.
Invisalign handles the large majority of adult and teen cases we see. It works well for:
It is less suitable, or needs to be combined with other treatment, when there is a severe skeletal discrepancy between the jaws, teeth that need to be moved a long distance vertically, or significant untreated gum disease. If a case is genuinely better served by braces or by an orthodontist, we will tell you that at the consultation rather than starting something that will not finish well.
Active decay and gum disease have to be treated first. Aligners hold plastic against the teeth for twenty-two hours a day, and moving teeth in an unhealthy mouth makes problems worse.
Wondering if you are a candidate?
The consultation is free. We scan your teeth and show you the plan before you decide anything.
Both work. The right answer depends on the case and on what you can live with day to day.
Appearance. This is the reason most adults ask about Invisalign in the first place. The aligners are clear and, from conversational distance, most people will not notice them. Attachments are visible up close but far less so than metal brackets.
Removability. You take aligners out to eat, so nothing is off the menu and flossing stays normal. Braces mean avoiding hard and sticky foods for the whole treatment and threading floss around a wire.
Comfort. Aligners have no sharp edges, so there are no brackets cutting into your cheek and no emergency visits for a poking wire. There is still pressure and tenderness for a day or two with each new tray — that is the tooth movement, and it is normal.
Appointments. Invisalign check-ins are typically every six to ten weeks and are short. Braces need more frequent adjustments.
Discipline. This is the honest trade-off. Braces work whether you are motivated or not. Invisalign only works if the aligners are actually in your mouth twenty to twenty-two hours a day. If you know you will not manage that, braces may be the better choice, and we would rather say so up front.
Complexity. For severe bite problems, braces still have more control. Invisalign has closed much of that gap, but not all of it.
We examine your teeth and gums, take X-rays and photographs, and scan your mouth digitally. The scan takes a few minutes and there is no impression tray involved. We also check for decay and gum health, because those have to be sound before aligners start.
The scan is used to build a three-dimensional plan showing each stage of movement. You see the projected end result before you decide anything, along with the number of aligners, the expected duration, and the exact cost. This is the point to ask questions — about your midline, about a particular tooth, about how the bite will settle.
When your aligners arrive we place the attachments, fit the first set, and check they seat fully. You get instructions, a case, and enough aligners to cover several weeks.
Twenty to twenty-two hours a day. Out for meals and for anything other than water. Change to the next set on the schedule we give you, usually every one to two weeks.
Every six to ten weeks we confirm the teeth are tracking to plan. If a tooth is lagging we adjust — sometimes with extra wear time on one tray, sometimes with a refinement scan later on.
Most cases finish with a short refinement stage: a fresh scan and a small additional series to perfect the details. Then retainers, which matter more than people expect. Teeth drift for the rest of your life. A retainer is what keeps the result.
Comparing aligners with braces?
Bring your questions. We will show you both paths and what each one means for your case.
Cost depends on how far the teeth have to move and how many aligners that takes. A short case correcting minor front-tooth crowding costs considerably less than a full-arch case running eighteen months. We give you the exact figure for your case in writing at the consultation, before you commit — not a range, and not a number that changes later.
Three things usually bring it down:
An HSA or FSA can also be used for orthodontic treatment, which is worth checking if you have one.
Nobody tells you these parts at the consultation, so here they are.
The first few days of each tray ache. Not badly, but the teeth feel tender and biting feels odd. Switching to a new set in the evening means you sleep through the worst of it.
You will talk slightly differently for about a week. A mild lisp is common at the start and almost always disappears as your tongue adapts. Reading out loud for a few minutes a day speeds it up.
Coffee is the main nuisance. Only water goes in with aligners in. Anything else either stains the plastic or sits against your teeth as sugar and acid with nowhere to go. Coffee and tea become sit-down events rather than all-morning ones.
You will brush more. Aligners go back in after eating, so teeth need cleaning first. Most patients keep a brush at work.
Attachments feel bigger than they look. Your lip catches on them for the first week, then you stop noticing.
Twenty-two hours is the real number. Patients who treat it as a guideline are the ones whose teeth stop tracking and whose treatment runs long. The people who finish on time are simply the ones who wore them.
Want the price in writing?
$500 off, insurance applied, and 0% financing for up to two years — all laid out before you start.
A large share of our Invisalign patients are adults in their thirties, forties, and fifties who wore braces once already. The teeth were straight at the end, the retainer got worn for a year or two, and then it sat in a drawer. Fifteen years later the lower front teeth have crowded again and the upper midline has shifted.
This is the single most satisfying category of case we treat, for a practical reason: the teeth have been in the right position before, so the bone and the roots already know the way back. Relapse cases are frequently short — often three to six months and a small number of aligners — and correspondingly less expensive than a case starting from scratch.
If that describes you, it is worth a consultation even if you assume the problem is too minor to bother with. Crowded lower incisors are hard to floss properly, and teeth that are hard to clean are the ones that develop decay between them and gum inflammation around them. Straightening them is a hygiene decision as much as a cosmetic one.
The other thing we will do differently this time is take retention seriously from the start, so you are not back in the same position in another fifteen years.
DNTL SPOT is owned and run by two sisters — Dr. Inessa Murdakhayeva and Dr. Regina Murdakhayeva. The dentist who plans your case is the dentist who sees you at every check-in.
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We are at 1455 Broadway in Hewlett, a short drive from Cedarhurst, Lawrence, Inwood, North Woodmere, Lynbrook, Far Rockaway, East Rockaway, Atlantic Beach, and Valley Stream. Patients come to us for Invisalign from across the Five Towns.
Sunday appointments make check-ins easy to fit around work and school, which matters over a treatment that runs several months. New to the practice? Our new patient resources page covers what to bring to a first visit.
Ready when you are
The consultation is where you find out whether Invisalign suits your case, what it will cost, and how long it will take — with a preview of the result before you decide. Check available times online or call the office.
1455 Broadway, Hewlett, NY 11557
(516) 226-9160
Monday & Wednesday 9:00 AM–5:00 PM · Sunday 9:00 AM–3:00 PM
