QuickSplint® temporary bite plane provides compelling visual evidence of parafunction, improving patient understanding and case acceptance. Here are a few examples of how QuickSplint® can aid clenchers and grinders.
A) Perio patient is a grinder
You can see the abfractions and worn dentition on her teeth. You want to get the teeth out of occlusion while she sleeps, so her gum tissue can heal without complication.
B) Developing a treatment plan for full mouth restoration
You have a classic case of treating worn dentition for a man in his fifties. The case could be staged, or you might try to accelerate the schedule, given some comments about his budget and timing. Before you finalize your choice of materials, you’d like to know if the parafunction is still active, and if so, is it severe?
C) Your practice needs a new patient promotion
Your practice needs a promotion that will attract new patients and be meaningful to the bottom line. Lots of other practices offer whitening promotions. It is hard to stand out.
In (A) you provide QuickSplint® as a safe and comfortable overnight deprogrammer,
instructing the patient to wear it overnight for two weeks. You make an appointment to take bite records and provide specific instructions for the day of the appointment.
In (B) you are delighted at the prospect of helping your patient with a new smile and explain that the first step is proper case planning starting with investigation of possible parafunction. You provide QuickSplint® for overnight wear for a period of two weeks. At the follow up, you examine the QuickSplint® for wear marks, and utilize the Parafunction Risk Rating Protocol to document risk and use this determination in treatment planning and material selection.
In (C) your hygienist alerts you to the situation. You want to help your patient get some relief, so you have your assistant make him a QuickSplint® temporary bite plane to wear at night for three weeks, and provide him with HEALS Patient Self-Care Measures and JAW Rx-Ercises, daytime exercises to help with tension headaches and jaw pain. Your team makes a follow-up phone call in two days to see if he is feeling better. If he is feeling improved with the use of QuickSplint®, your staff schedules him for an appointment for long-term appliance therapy.
In (A) you recognize this high-stress situation
for this beautiful professional woman. You make a QuickSplint® for her to wear over her provisionals and emphasize that she brings QuickSplint® with her on the trip. When it’s time for veneer placement, you reline the QuickSplint® and instruct her to wear it over the new veneers when she sleeps until the lab delivers a custom appliance to protect those beautiful teeth.
In (B) you decide to give the patient a QuickSplint to wear at night,
over her last set of trays. You know that can help you determine whether she needs a hard acrylic nightguard as a final retainer or just the three sets of trays you give most patients. She’s pleased that you care to check this possibility and she is willing to invest in the hard acrylic nightguard as insurance that her teeth won’t move.
In (C) you provide QuickSplint for post-operative use as a part of the LANAP Protocol
to keep the teeth stable and out of occlusion while protecting the gums and fibrin clot. QuickSplint® is comforting to the patient and contributes to the recovery of jaw muscles and joints.
Leading dentists use QuickSplint® to minimize the risk of jaw injury during dental procedures and help the jaw relax and recover post-operatively. Here are a few examples of how QuickSplint® can be utilized to provide an extra measure of care for higher risk patients.
A) Posterior crown prep was hard the last time
You and your staff remember last year, when she couldn’t keep her jaw open during crown prep on #18. She had limited range-of-motion to start, and she wanted breaks and looked anxious about the time it was taking. She is scheduled for a crown prep on #19 this week, and she told your staff she dreads the procedure.
B) High risk patient
Your treatment coordinator is with the patient, scheduling two appointments for scaling and root planing, with the second appointment for two weeks after the first. The treatment coordinator has the patient fill out the JAMSS Risk Assessment Questionnaire; she spots red flags in the patient’s responses.
C) Signs of jaw fatigue
Young woman has her first root canal. She was nervous and highly agitated before the procedure. There were some signs of jaw fatigue during the RCT. Do you manage the risk of sudden onset of jaw pain, or see what manifests? You don’t want to cause alarm or worry.
Speed2Treat® includes simple treatment measures to reduce pain and inflammation in facial, jaw, and neck muscles.
Your jaw joints are two of the most heavily used joints of your body. Like an ankle sprain, you should not wait for jaw sprain/strain to get worse. Speed2Treat® was developed by orofacial pain specialists to provide an at-home treatment option, based on a simple orthopedic model of care, suggested for the first 2 to 4 weeks following the onset of pain or injury.
Follow our simple steps to rest and heal. Increase your chances for normal recovery and reduce the likelihood that you might need extensive and/or costly treatment.
