"Food for Thought" for the New School Year
"Getting Off the Merry-Go-Round"
Responsibilities can keep us focused on everything but ourselves. We have our routines and we push into them every day without much thought about how we feel.
Tomorrow morning try something different. When you wake up, take notice of how you feel. Do you have a headache? Does your jaw ache? Are your teeth tightly shut so that you can feel your muscles working just to open and close your mouth?
While you are going through your day, take a moment between appointments and check yourself again. Are you clenching your teeth?
When you are driving, do you find yourself worrying and clenching your teeth as you do?
There are about 60 million Americans who grind and clench their teeth today. They have headaches and pain in their necks and jaws on a daily basis. Pain relievers seem to be an immediate answer. We can't escape stress in our lives - especially today. We can, however, take simple measures aside from pain medication to stop the pain at the source.
Did you know that repetitive clenching and grinding of our teeth can do much more damage to us than simply wearing down our enamel and causing us headaches? We cause harm to adjacent tissue, joints and other muscles.
So does this mean you need to spend upwards of $1,000. to get a dental product - a night guard prepared by a laboratory - and spend a few visits with the dentist to fit the nightguard correctly? And what happens when your dog chews the nightguard, or you lose it, or after a few nights of gagging when you insert the guard, you give up wearing it entirely?
The good news is you have another choice and it is not about running to the drugstore to get an ill-fitting but inexpensive guard.
Calling your dental professional is the right call to make to address habitual clenching and grinding. You do not have to endure gagging on impressions and multiple visits and the big expense for a lab prepared nightguard if you are not ready to make that decision now. Here is an interim plan that will help you commit to wearing a night guard and start you on your way to waking up headache-free.
Ask your dentist for a chairside nightguard made from thermoplastic Temp Tabs - TRUE BLUE or Temp Tabs - NATURAL from All Dental ProdX.
Responsibilities can keep us focused on everything but ourselves. We have our routines and we push into them every day without much thought about how we feel.
Tomorrow morning try something different. When you wake up, take notice of how you feel. Do you have a headache? Does your jaw ache? Are your teeth tightly shut so that you can feel your muscles working just to open and close your mouth?
While you are going through your day, take a moment between appointments and check yourself again. Are you clenching your teeth?
When you are driving, do you find yourself worrying and clenching your teeth as you do?
There are about 60 million Americans who grind and clench their teeth today. They have headaches and pain in their necks and jaws on a daily basis. Pain relievers seem to be an immediate answer. We can't escape stress in our lives - especially today. We can, however, take simple measures aside from pain medication to stop the pain at the source.
Did you know that repetitive clenching and grinding of our teeth can do much more damage to us than simply wearing down our enamel and causing us headaches? We cause harm to adjacent tissue, joints and other muscles.
So does this mean you need to spend upwards of $1,000. to get a dental product - a night guard prepared by a laboratory - and spend a few visits with the dentist to fit the nightguard correctly? And what happens when your dog chews the nightguard, or you lose it, or after a few nights of gagging when you insert the guard, you give up wearing it entirely?
The good news is you have another choice and it is not about running to the drugstore to get an ill-fitting but inexpensive guard.
Calling your dental professional is the right call to make to address habitual clenching and grinding. You do not have to endure gagging on impressions and multiple visits and the big expense for a lab prepared nightguard if you are not ready to make that decision now. Here is an interim plan that will help you commit to wearing a night guard and start you on your way to waking up headache-free.
Ask your dentist for a chairside nightguard made from thermoplastic Temp Tabs - TRUE BLUE or Temp Tabs - NATURAL from All Dental ProdX.
If you want to see this dental product in action - go to YouTube and search "Temp Tabs Night Guard". You can see 2 videos - one is from Dr. Marty Goldstein (a nationally known lecturer in the dental community and who routinely speaks about dental products.) The other video is by a highly respected restorative dentist in West Caldwell, NJ named Dr. Greg Gallant. Both these doctors have fit many patients with these easy to make nightguards and report great results.
In each of these videos you will get a sense of how immediate and gag-free a Temp Tab nightguard will be. And the cost? Less than $200.
Here's the best part…the nightguard can be prepared for you in a few minutes at your dental office and adjusted immediately to fit perfectly for you. Your dental practitioner will fit the softened material to exactly suit your dental anatomy. You will not be able to grind or clench and you will not want to gag when you wear it. It is so easy to wear, you may decide to get two - one for night time use in BLUE and a NATURAL colored one for during the day. Keep one in the car so you can protect your teeth and jaws while you are driving.
In each of these videos you will get a sense of how immediate and gag-free a Temp Tab nightguard will be. And the cost? Less than $200.
Here's the best part…the nightguard can be prepared for you in a few minutes at your dental office and adjusted immediately to fit perfectly for you. Your dental practitioner will fit the softened material to exactly suit your dental anatomy. You will not be able to grind or clench and you will not want to gag when you wear it. It is so easy to wear, you may decide to get two - one for night time use in BLUE and a NATURAL colored one for during the day. Keep one in the car so you can protect your teeth and jaws while you are driving.
Later on, you may decide with your dentist to invest in a lab-prepared nightguard. You can still keep your Temp Tab nightguards as back ups!
So when you wake up tomorrow, notice your headache if there is one and be aware of pain in your jaw or neck. Then call your dentist for an appointment before you start your day.
You'll sleep better knowing you have taken the right step off that merry-go-round of discomfort and damage.
Language by Kate Liddle
Photos by Dr. George Freedman
So when you wake up tomorrow, notice your headache if there is one and be aware of pain in your jaw or neck. Then call your dentist for an appointment before you start your day.
You'll sleep better knowing you have taken the right step off that merry-go-round of discomfort and damage.
Language by Kate Liddle
Photos by Dr. George Freedman
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Innovation continues with “Patient Comfort Management” via dental wholesale supplies that help you win at Practice Management in an ever competitive market.
Managing your patient’s comfort goes beyond simple pain management. Greater understanding and responses to the patient’s experience during their visit equals patient retention and greater treatment plan acceptance. And that supports the growth of your practice. Improving your patients’ overall comfort during their visits just makes sense.
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