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131. Dr. Michael Gunson - When do you actually prescribe an occlusal splint/hard night guard?

Dental Digest Podcast with Dr. Melissa Seibert

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Dental Splints - What Are You Doing With Them?

The ideas behind splint fabrication are so different. You have to ask yourself, what are you doing with that splint? I mean, i've seen people wear hocky pucks basically in their mouth. Nature is saying, no, they need an inch of a crilic in between their teeth. Let's go all the way back to the beginning where we talked about getting the lips together. If you take somebody that has maladaptive behaviours in their bite, eclusion because they're too long and can't get their lips together, now you throw a piece of plastic between their teeth,. Are you making it better or worse? It's not helping. So then we have to

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