#1 Application of the Night Guard using Magnetic attachment on a Patient with Bruxism
S. Kamogawa1, N. Tsukimura1,2, M. Morokuma1, N. Suzuki1, Y. Takeuchi1, Y. Abe1, S. Ohno1, T. Azuhata1, T. Ishigami1,2
1 Department of Partial Denture Prosthodontics, Nihon University School of Dentistry 2 Division of Clinical Research, Dental Research Center, Nihon University School of Dentistry
As handing of a removable denture, most of dentists usually instruct a patient that a denture should be removed overnight. However, on patients with bruxism, dentures are recommended to wear for protecting teeth occasionally. Meanwhile, in spite of proposing to use dentures while asleep, bruxism may be caused in fracture of dentures repeatedly. It is highly confused to select an effective treatment for patients with bruxism. We report one clinical case that is to apply the night guard using magnetic attachment for a patient with hard bruxism while asleep. After taking impression as the denture production procedure, the night guard was took a registration of interocclusal relation using the replica of the denture which was wearing ordinary and then was transferred in transparent acriric resin (Palapress Vario). The magnetic assemblies were set on the corresponded position on the night guard afterwards. All functional cusp in centric occlusion were adjusted to a point contact for avoid occlusal interference. The result showed the night guard that we provided in this case was available at the good condition for 6 months and also was obtained the fully satisfaction for the patient. It is necessary to follow up more long-term progress.