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Retainers are crafted by your dentist or expert online dental companies like SportingSmiles. These oral devices protect your teeth from shifting after the completion of braces or aligners. If you don’t wear one, your teeth will shift back erasing all of that hard work and money spent. If you need a new one, can you make a new retainer from an old one?
In order for a retainer to be effective, it needs to be exact and fit snuggly on your teeth. When you put a retainer on, it should almost “snap” onto your teeth due to the perfect impression of your teeth. The tight feel prevents micro-shifting. After some time, retainers will begin to wear out. It’s just the nature of them, and after a year or two they will become less effective against microshifting. When this happens, it’s time to replace your retainer, but many wonder can you make a new retainer from an old one?
The answer is no and it’s for a very good reason. SportingSmiles has been crafting premium retainers since 2009 for over one million people worldwide. To receive a retainer, customers can either make an impression with the patented impression kit, send digital STL files, or use their own molds. Can you make a new retainer from an old one? No, and the reason is that in the process of creating a copy from the retainer, it will be too loose. If you try to pack impression putty into it, you are still leaving millimeters of space that will allow your teeth to shift. The retainer will not be as tight as it should.
If you have a loose retainer, your teeth are defenseless against shifting. It needs to be an exact fit, and a tight one at that over your teeth. If you try and make a new retainer from an old one, the retainer itself will leave an inaccurate impression in putty because it’s bigger than your actual teeth. There’s no software or technology that allows dental lab techs to shrink down the impression or the retainer once it’s crafted.
Replace your lost, cracked, gross, and damaged dental retainers with a new one from SportingSmiles. Prevent your teeth from shifting using the most durable clear retainers available. Take your own impression at home and save hundreds over going to the dentist. Impression kit included. Free Shipping in the United States. Free Storage Case 90-Day Warranty
Can you make a new retainer from an old one? No, you know that by now but there are plenty of other ways to receive a brand new one to protect your smile. SportingSmiles has a patented impression kit that you can use to create exact impressions of your teeth. It’s important to remember not to use your retainer to make the impressions, but your actual teeth. If a retainer is used, it will be automatically rejected.
Other ways to receive retainers from SportingSmiles include sending STL digital files that you can receive from your dentist. Just ask them for it, and you should be able to receive them easily. Finally, if you have the molds of your teeth, SportingSmiles can use those to craft the product. It’s important to note, that you cannot use your molds in the impressions either, that will be an automatic rejection. SportingSmiles will scan in the molds with our technology and craft a retainer using the scan. Your dentist should be able to provide you with the STL files, or your molds.
SportingSmiles offers the exact same premium retainers at half the cost of the dentist. It’s the same quality you’d receive from the dentist but with huge savings! SportingSmiles can even scan in your impressions and keep them on file for life for easy reordering, or SportingSmiles offers a subscription service for you to receive a fresh set every six months.
Can you make a new retainer from an old one? No, but there are many ways to receive a brand new one from SportingSmiles. Make sure you are protected and wear it at night to keep that beautiful smile.
