WHAT IS NIGHT GUARD AND WHAT IT USED FOR?

1. WHAT IS NIGHT GUARD AND WHAT IT USED FOR? Night guards are devices you place on your upper or lower teeth in the dark to guard your teeth and jaw from teeth clenching or grinding (otherwise referred to as bruxism). counting on your needs and your level of teeth grinding, your night guard is going to be made from a softer, more flexible rubber or a harder plastic. While night guards look very almost like plastic retainers, their protective function is totally different from that of a retainer. CAN I WEAR A RETAINER AS AN NIGHTGUARD? If you've got a retainer made from hard plastic that fully covers your upper or lower teeth, it'd provide some protection and relief for minor tooth grinding and clenching, but retainers aren't designed to require the beating, your teeth placed on them once you grind your teeth in the dark and thus it might not be the simplest solution. Typically, retainers are very thin, as their job is just to carry your teeth in situ , to not protect them. Trying to wear a retainer as an evening guard will eventually end in holes and uneven decline for many people. When I first developed bruxism, I used to still wear my retainers from my braces. This was a few years ago, before online companies like Pro Teeth Guard existed, and I didn’t want to

2. spend tons of cash on an evening guard. I started wearing my retainers every single night, hoping they might provide protection to my teeth and relax my jaw muscles. While they did provide a touch little bit of protection, I still awakened with headaches and a sore jaw or sometimes tooth pain, and my continual grinding was beginning to wear away at my retainer. The fast fix of the retainer was doing nothing to ease my symptoms of bruxism. CAN YOU HAVE VENEER IF YOU GRIND YOUR TEETH? New porcelain technology has an answer for nightime grinders. E Max porcelain can be used in a monolithic form (one layer) that is very strong and unlikely to chip. Her treatment consisted of crowns to replace her old crowns, minimal preparation (Prepless) veneers on her incisors, and normal veneers to replace her old veneers on her eye teeth. Her goals were to have a more symmetrical smile with teeth that had more uniformity of color and were not worn.