Re: question about splints

From: Steven Fawks (tuthjockey_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 07/08/04 

Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 11:49:34 GMT

In my experience, conventional splints (hard or soft) simply provide a
new clenching surface. They do protect teeth from direct contact with
each other, but do nothing for the muscle activity that is driving the
whole problem in the first place.

Once I made a few NTI's and realized that they were much more successful
in relieving symptoms, I would have been stupid to ever make another
conventional splint.

I think the NTI-tss is one of the greatest advancements in dentistry,
period. I'd place it right there with the high-speed handpiece, acid
etching, dentin bonding, and dental porcelain.

The use of local anesthetic is about all that I can think of that is
really more important (many of these other items are or par with NTI's)
in my practice.

Fawks

LL wrote:

> Excuse me, but why not????
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> LL
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> Dr Steve wrote:
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>>No one on this forum would recommend a soft splint.
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