Well, if you have TMJ, which is Temporomandibular Joint, well, it’s actually TMD, Temporomandibular Joint Disorder, you’re having pain in the joints from typically you’re clenching and grinding while you’re sleeping. If you’ve had a stressful day, you think about and dream about all those things that went wrong and you take it out on your teeth, you’ll clench and grind. It also pushes and irritates the joints by doing that. Oral surgeon to have surgery to correct the joint popping or locking, they would send you to your dentist and say, “First thing is try a night guard.” Night guards typically take care of most of those problems.
I am a clencher. I am a grinder. If I’ve had a stressful day and something didn’t go right and I’m worrying about it, I clench and grind. I have to wear a night guard or I would wear my teeth down to nubs. So it’s not a…I know what it’s like. I know, I’ve had joint pain, I’ve had headaches and all from that, but by wearing a night guard every night, I don’t. It fixes that problem. It’ll also keep you from cracking your teeth, it’ll keep you from wearing them down flat. If you’re grinding your teeth, you’ll wear them, all the cusps down and you’ll wear the teeth where they become more sensitive, more sensitive to, susceptible to cavities. There’s a lot of problems with grinding. So we’ve got a way of fixing that with night guards.
