How to Wear Your Night Guard

Video Transcript

"So were you just recently prescribed by your general dentist on wearing your night guard but you are just unsure on exactly how to wear it? My name is Michelle and I'm a dental assistant with Solutionz and I'm going to explain to you on how you can wear your night guard. It is pretty much easy depending on the night guard that your dentist prescribed whether it is a hard night guard, a medium night guard or a soft night guard is determined on how to wear it. Usually with the hard night guards it actually locks your upper and your lower teeth into place so therefore you cannot grind back and forth whenever you are sleeping. A medium sized night guard is similar to the hard but it is not as thick or bulky and then the soft night guard is very pliable and it looks similar to this. It moves easily. It has a lot of flexibility to it but if you do have to wear a hard night guard you would just place it in your mouth and then you would actually bite down on your back teeth so therefore your upper and lower back teeth will kind of click into place and then that will prevent you from grinding and then you just wear it for the recommended time as far as eight hours or while you are sleeping or whatever your dentist prescribes to you and then you just take it out in the morning. Of course just give it a good brush with your toothbrush and toothpaste to kind of keep it clean and then proceed throughout your day but depending on what type of night guard you have been prescribed for then you would just wear it according to what your dentist recommended. Once again my name is Michelle and I'm a dental assistant with Solutionz and I just explained to you on how you can wear your night guard."