On 10/5/2018 7:23 AM,
wdstarr57@gmail.com wrote:
It is useless. I also bought one on line which apparently molds to the mouth but it did not work-too soft. The hard ones from the dental labs are the ones to use. Don't waste your money.
Agreed, but a cheap, soft bought-at-the-drug-store night guard can be very useful as a short-term temporary replacement while your broken made-by-a-dental-lab one is being replaced. Saves your teeth from a week or two of completely ungaurded grinding.
That depends upon the indication for the night guard. If it is intended
to prevent breaking teeth, maybe. If the intent is to unload the TM
joints because bruxism is causing muscle spasm, it could well do more
hard than good.
Some are soft on the inside (where they fit over the teeth) and hard on
the smooth surface facing the opposite jaw. I have no problem with
those, but I don't know that they sell those OTC.
Steve
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