Anti-Grinding Devices, or Nightguard Appliances as they are more commonly known, take the punishment that your teeth would normally endure during night-time grinding to minimize the damage from grinding your teeth.

A nightguard appliance is a custom-made thin transparent horseshoe-shaped (retainer like appliance) made of hard plastic that has shallow borders for good tooth alignment and ideal bite relationship.

This appliance is worn between the top and bottom teeth and does not allow the teeth to interlock which absorbs the force of the clenching and grinding to elimate wear on your teeth and also to reduce jaw joint irritation and inflammation.

How is the appliance made?

• At the first appointment an accurate impression of your upper and lower teeth will be made. These impressions are used to create models of how your teeth fit together. These items are used to form a customized heat-processed hard plastic nightguard appliance.
• At the second appointment the final fitting and adjustment of the nightguard will be carried out.