Doctor Nikolaos Salapatas on mouthguards
Mouth guards are a great tool to keep teeth healthy. In athletics, when a lot of people tend to clench, especially if they’re doing extraneous sports such as weightlifting or impact sports such as football, when they’re getting hit pretty regularly, protecting your teeth is very important, so appliances can definitely help with that. As far as bruxism, is or otherwise known as grinding.
Grinding can cause severe wear on your teeth, that wear can cause jaw pain, it can cause headaches, it can cause all sorts of other problems and discomforts that sometimes become very challenging to treat. Guards such as night guards and other appliances can really help prevent that wear and really help prevent any complications in the future.