Protect Your Smile While You Sleep With Nightguards

The preservation of your teeth and long-term oral health is important to our team! For patients who have jaw pain at night or grind their teeth, nightguards are designed to be an effective solution. Using modern 3Shape Automate digital technology, we design personalized nightguards that are crafted to be long-lasting, secure, and precisely shaped to your smile!

What Are Nightguards?

A nightguard is a personalized dental appliance developed to be worn over the teeth while you sleep without causing irritation and discomfort. Another name for it is a dental guard or occlusal guard. Nightguards are primarily intended to protect the jaw and teeth from the effects of bruxism (teeth grinding) and temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disorders.

Protective gear, like nightguards, are composed of flexible, long-lasting materials. By forming a barrier between the upper and lower dental arches, the nightguard is created to fit securely over the upper or lower teeth to stop jaw pain, tooth wear, and other issues brought on by nighttime clenching or grinding.

How Are These Dental Appliances Made?

At Tanglewood Dental Office, we utilize 3Shape Automate digital technology to design your customized nightguards. This AI technology was developed to deliver your tailored nightguard design quickly —no messy traditional molds or impressions are needed!

• Designing Nightguard: Our dentist can upload your open jaw scans to 3Shape Automate. The nightguard's surface is adjusted by AI technology to have that single point of contact with the opposing option after it has recognized and detected the upper and lower jaw. Our dentist can make adjustments to the nightguard design via their computer using the 3Shape Since each nightguard is 3D printed, it is designed to fit more securely and not as tight on the teeth as one made analogically.
• Milling Nightguard: The nightguard design is sent to the milling machine where the dental appliance will be developed.

Caring For Your Personalized Nightguard

• Rinse your nightguard with warm water as soon as you take it out of your mouth after wearing it each time.
• Once you've rinsed, lightly brush your nightguard with your regular toothbrush.
• Pick a spotlessly smooth surface to let your nightguard dry.

You deserve to enjoy your rest and be alleviated of clenching and grinding discomfort. Nightguards from Tanglewood Dental Office can help. Call us today!