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In this video, we'll guide you through the essential steps to determine if your #nightguard is working properly. #mouthguards are crucial for protecting your teeth from #teethgrinding and clenching, but it's important to ensure they fit well and provide the necessary protection.
What You'll Learn:
1. How to check your night-guard for key elements of function
2. How to ensure your night guard fits snugly but comfortably
3. How to know if your night guard is made for #teethgrinding or clenching
4. How to adjust a #mouthguard
#teethgrinding is very different from clenching and people who grind their teeth require a #nightguard for teeth grinding rather than a deprogrammer, which is an appliance used for clenchers. If you are #grinding teeth at night, then you need a different design of your nightguard than someone who clenches.
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
01:20 Tip 1: Ensure proper fit
01:30 #teethgrinding guard: what to look for
01:58 How to mark the night-guard to check bite
02:43 Adjusting a night guard @KerrDentalCorporation
03:30 Clenchers: what to look for
03:45 How to check bite for a clencher
04:08 Canine Guidance
05:07 Clenchers - a Deprogrammer appliance
06:10 Be Aware
07:31 Polishing and smoothing your nightguard @GarrisonDental
Thank you for watching! 🌟

[@jacksonelgarret4925]

Thank you for this!

[@jonathanmatthew5631]

What if you are both a grinder and a clencher?

[@juliados1497]

Thanks for the video! Can you be 80% grinder and 20% clencher?

[@dr.agathabis]

Yes you can. And thank you for commenting

[@heyyou8103]

@@dr.agathabisI ve grinder and clencher as well . I don’t which one is more serious. Do one night guard can help？ or I need two ？

[@dr.agathabis]

@@heyyou8103 one is fine but the design of it needs to incorporate what’s called “anterior guidance”

[@CN-wn5bc]

what if you clinch and also grind your teeth?

[@dr.agathabis]

if you grind then you are still a grinder

[@dissizyeezy5517]

@@dr.agathabisso if your both does the anterior guidance help resolve the clenching?

[@dr.agathabis]

@@dissizyeezy5517 typically the anterior guidance helps reduce clenching

[@dr.agathabis]

@@dissizyeezy5517 unfortunately not always. It really depends on many factors most of which would need a thorough assessment of your occlusion

[@ds74878]

By the time I'm about to fall asleep, I find that my inner cheek finds its way between my top and bottom teeth, leading to cheek biting. Is there anything out there to protect the inner cheek?

[@dr.agathabis]

Typically, when cheeks get in between, it means that there is not enough overlap between the top and bottom teeth/nightguard. So basically, the nightguard needs to be adjusted. If it's a lower nighguard, then the outside part needs to be brought in more so the upper teeth stick out more than the nightguard and protect the cheek from getting caught.

[@ds74878]

@@dr.agathabis Very interesting! Thanks!