CUSTOM MADE BRUXISM MOUTH GUARD VIDEO

I made the video below to show you my simple custom made bruxism mouth guard that should help me stop grinding teeth. I had my dentist make this a while ago after he talked me into it. First he took an impression of my upper teeth and then sent that off to the lab. About $400 dollars later I now have this mouth guard that is supposed to be worn at night to help me stop grinding teeth.

It does work as it totally prevents my upper and lower teeth from coming together and grinding. The problem is that it is VERY uncomfortable and I don't want to spend the rest of my life wearing this to bed!

Now for about $1000 my dentist said that he could make a much more comfortable bruxism guard that would require impressions of both my lower and upper teeth. The night guard would not be as big around as the one you see in the video and it would sit between my teeth. Both my upper and lower teeth would naturally fit into the night guard as naturally as my teeth fit together and this would make it much more comfortable he said. But do I want to spend $1000 on another guard that I am probably just going to give up wearing after a while?

Seems to me the better option is just to learn how to stop grinding teeth once and for all!

GRINDING TEETH AND YOUR BITE

One of the reasons that grinding teeth can be bad is that it can contribute to altering your bite. Pressure on your teeth over time will not only wear them down but can also move them around.

Everybody has a different bite that is defined by how your upper and lower teeth meet. When you get braces as a child or an adult, the main purpose is to change the way your upper and lower teeth come together so that your bite is correct.

Braces show that pressure on your teeth actually move them and adjust their angles. This can also happen with bruxism over a long period of time. Our teeth are not fused to the bone and they will move over the period of a lifetime. Grinding teeth at night can only make this worse.

I have noticed that all of a sudden my bite seems different than it did before. I can't identify exactly what is different but my teeth don't seem to be meeting each other like they did before. My bite seems different and not in a good way.

If you want to learn how to stop grinding teeth, it is a good idea to attack the problem before it does damage not only to your enamel but your bite. Wearing a bruxism mouth guard is an option but one you will probably not follow through with for the rest of your life. Grinding teeth guards are not the most pleasant thing to sleep with and that presents a dilemma for anyone with this problem.