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What is the Night guards?
The Night guards it is the most common treatment of dysfunctions of the temporomandibular joint. Are divided into soft splints and hard splints night.
How are Night guards manufactured??
After the clinical examination and the identification of the problem, the dentist takes two prints, the upper and the lower jaw, and making the appropriate splint depending on the case, which ,after the tailor in the occlusion of the patient, of the delivers, together with the appropriate instructions for the proper use of it.
The individual that splint stabilize applies exactly in the teeth of the patient, usually of the upper jaw. It's transparent and the patient the time, usually during the duration of the nightunless the case requires and use daily. However, it should be removed during the meal.
The function of Night guards?
The functions of the narthex are summarized in the following :
- The involuntary movements of the mandible made on the surface of the splint, the teeth when closing the mouth do not come in contact and thus protected and the teeth and any dental prostheses present in the mouth.
- It causes a mild stretching of the muscles of mastication by helping to relax them.
- For protection of the temporomandibular joint structures.
- During the occlusion of the teeth prevents any interference and thus achieve equal distribution of the forces.
