What are dental splints? In this article we’re going to talk about what they are for, different kinds that exist and other treatments.
What is a dental splint? What is it for?
A dental splint is an odontological device that adapts to your teeth to cushion your bite. It’s a device fabricated by an odontologist, usually built with acrylic or plastic materials, that’s used to cover the patient’s denture.
Dental splints are used to control bruxism, which is the involuntary action of contracting your biting muscles, making the teeth squeal. On a long term period it can cause gum problems and wear on teeth.
To create a dental splint, special molds are used that adapt to any patient with the objective of perfectly fitting they’re mouth and teeth, avoiding a teeth wear caused by bruxism. The main aim is to reduce the patient’s tension, in case he/she suffers from daily stress. It’s recommended to use the splint during night-time, and its use doesn’t cause any prejudice in the patients’ health.
At Quality Dent, your trusted dentist in Sabinillas, we offer a great range of treatments with dental splints with which we can help you to show off and better your great smile day to day.
Different kinds of dental splints
The objective of dental splints is not only to fight bruxism, there are many different kinds of splints depending on the treatment every patient gets. So we can distinguish:
The main aim of this splint is to take care and protect the patients’ teeth while they do contact sports like boxing, rugby or hockey.
This kind of splint has the function to obtain information about the patients’ mouth before a quirurgic intervention.
This splint avoids the movement of your teeth while a periodontal treatment is being done.
Its objective is to avoid the movement of your teeth, while you’re under an orthodontics in Sabinillas.
This splint is used for teeth whitening treatments, maintaining on the surface an agent that helps to whiten your teeth.
This kind of splint is used to avoid involuntary contact on our patients’ upper and downer teeth producing a squeak. The Michigan splint is produced in a very exact manner, after taking molds of the patients’ mouth.
This splint acts like a protective layer on the teeth that present bruxism.
Michigan splints are the most effective to fight this kind of condition, helping to reduce the habit itself, and protecting the teeth when its donde involuntarily. One main benefit of this discharge splint is its buffering function, thanks to its more durable composition compared to other splints.
Get your Michigan Splint in Quality Dent
At Quality Dent we have an expertised team of qualified specialists to accompany you throughout the treatment of getting your beautiful smile.
With our treatment of discharging Michigan splints, we assure you excellent results to control this habit, that aside from affecting your smile also does to your health
