Grinding and Snoring

Excessive jaw clenching and grinding can accelerate tooth and jaw deterioration. Meanwhile, snoring can impact the quality of your own sleep and that of those around you. To help our patients most comfortably avoid this, we customize snore and night guards to their bite. One type of night guard acts as a cushion between the top and bottom dental arches while the other creates more space between the front teeth to prevent the top and lower jaw from touching. Snore prevention mouth pieces look similar, but instead of acting as a cushion or spacer, they keep the lower jaw forward, thereby preventing pressure on the larynx. Sometimes, a referral for a sleep-apnea test may be warranted for patients whose snoring issues need to be managed with more sophisticated methods, for example, a CPAP machine or surgery.