socilbliss2002
07-04-2004, 07:28 AM
Hi people i initially wrote this message to cymy, but could anyone please give me their advice, thanks
Two years ago I had a flat plane upper splint, which I wore for two months,as my jaw was not opening very wide to eat, and there was pain but it was bearable, so I saw a surgeon, who said it was easy fixed, and said I was to wear the splint for 3 months, and if that didnt work, it would do
anthrocentesis.
Within 2 months I had developed an open bite, my bite was fine before, and then the pain and spasms became chronic, with my bite changing day to day, but the open bite has never closed.
I have been in pain clinics etc for the problem, and nothing has really helped except for osteopath, and I am now on antidepressants for it.
I have been to a dentist who says the only way out of this mess, if by using the repositioning splint, I am reluctant to do so, considering the first splint was meant to be irreversible and harmless.
Can you give some advice on the splint, i read somewhere that you
are wearing a stablilisation splint on the lower teeth, i was wanting to ask this dentist if he could perhaps make me one similar.
The job I am doing, i cannot afford to wear a splint like a repositioning splint, that is NOT meant to be removed even for eating, I need to take it out for an hour or so at a time, and i thought it might be good just to get a stablilistion splint, even though i realise that I have had one already for the upper teeth.I stopped wearing that one, as soon as the bite changed.
I did read somewhere that some dentist disagree with the stablilisation, as it it not treating the actual bite problem, and I am sure that my dentist is going to give me this same lecture, but its my mouth.
So what i am asking is? By the time you had the stablilisation splint, was your bite in a good place? Do you have to wear the stablisation splint fulltime, to keep alleviating the symptoms?
Im not sure this all works, after i wore the first splint, i could again open my mouth a bit wider, but the teeth had moved, and in a letter my oral surgeon had said that i did have internal derangment, but now i can open my mouth quite wide,so do i have internal derangment still? the clicking from before has now gone to a grating sound, like bone on bone,and the dentist wanting to put me in the repositioning splint said that if i leave my jaw in this condition it will turn into arthritis.
My oral surgeon said i am a mystery case, a rarity haha, from developing an open bite from a splint, and yet, i have come to find that others have had the exact same problem.
Also, if i was to do the reposition splint, isnt it bad to go ahead with that treatment, when there are still major muscle spasms??
ahh im so confused,. sorry if this post was a little unclear
thanks kindly
Two years ago I had a flat plane upper splint, which I wore for two months,as my jaw was not opening very wide to eat, and there was pain but it was bearable, so I saw a surgeon, who said it was easy fixed, and said I was to wear the splint for 3 months, and if that didnt work, it would do
anthrocentesis.
Within 2 months I had developed an open bite, my bite was fine before, and then the pain and spasms became chronic, with my bite changing day to day, but the open bite has never closed.
I have been in pain clinics etc for the problem, and nothing has really helped except for osteopath, and I am now on antidepressants for it.
I have been to a dentist who says the only way out of this mess, if by using the repositioning splint, I am reluctant to do so, considering the first splint was meant to be irreversible and harmless.
Can you give some advice on the splint, i read somewhere that you
are wearing a stablilisation splint on the lower teeth, i was wanting to ask this dentist if he could perhaps make me one similar.
The job I am doing, i cannot afford to wear a splint like a repositioning splint, that is NOT meant to be removed even for eating, I need to take it out for an hour or so at a time, and i thought it might be good just to get a stablilistion splint, even though i realise that I have had one already for the upper teeth.I stopped wearing that one, as soon as the bite changed.
I did read somewhere that some dentist disagree with the stablilisation, as it it not treating the actual bite problem, and I am sure that my dentist is going to give me this same lecture, but its my mouth.
So what i am asking is? By the time you had the stablilisation splint, was your bite in a good place? Do you have to wear the stablisation splint fulltime, to keep alleviating the symptoms?
Im not sure this all works, after i wore the first splint, i could again open my mouth a bit wider, but the teeth had moved, and in a letter my oral surgeon had said that i did have internal derangment, but now i can open my mouth quite wide,so do i have internal derangment still? the clicking from before has now gone to a grating sound, like bone on bone,and the dentist wanting to put me in the repositioning splint said that if i leave my jaw in this condition it will turn into arthritis.
My oral surgeon said i am a mystery case, a rarity haha, from developing an open bite from a splint, and yet, i have come to find that others have had the exact same problem.
Also, if i was to do the reposition splint, isnt it bad to go ahead with that treatment, when there are still major muscle spasms??
ahh im so confused,. sorry if this post was a little unclear
thanks kindly
Sponsor