Only if the dentist is making an NTI, and then the difference
is huge.

D

On Feb 16, 2:25 pm, hannel...@gmail.com wrote:

Seems a bit overpriced. You may want to call other dentists and ask
for price on a similar device. Also, if you live near a dental school,
this is something you may get a good price on there.

On Feb 16, 3:25 pm, hannel...@gmail.com wrote:

This is a site I found about a different kind of device being
discussed here lately.  I have one of those big night guards that I've
never been able to stand to use.  This other device called NTI:
Tension Suppression System looks much simpler.

Look here:

http://www.headacheprevention.com/pages/HowItWorks.html

Good luck!

Eva

The athletic mouthguard is designed much like a shock absorber
for sudden impacts.

Atheletic mouthguards do nothing to prevent parafuntional damage,
and actually can increase nocturnal parafuntional habits.

In article <1171814483.121731.119810@q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
equesnel@unm.edu wrote:

(Cox server was down.  I apologize if this posts shows up more than
once. I can't find the original post, so am putting this and one other
up alone as replies out of sequence.)

Eva, when the TMJ was implicated as the cause of so many conditions, it
was the TMJ that got treated.  Sometimes, rarely... the TMJ did need to
be treated with surgical approaches (such as in my case -- an iatrogenic
and chronic condition needing surgery after surgery).  But part of the
problem began with the patients: people got desperate for relief and
often ended up in the office of maxillofacial surgeons demanding the
need to "try something" or "do something..."!!! ... anything to get them
out of their various types of pain and suffering!!!  And the surgeons
operated and operated and operated.  And the patients rarely got better
and sometimes got terribly worse.

Now, in the year 2007, TMJ surgery is not thought to be the convenient
answer it was once thought or hoped to be.  It's gotten somewhat
difficult to find surgeons doing "necessary" TMJ surgery because so many
"retired" from the "business" of TMJ surgery for all sorts of reasons.  

You have almost nothing to lose by asking a dentist to get you fitted
with a well constructed (properly) NTI just to see if its use creates
any positive impact upon your symptoms.  You need to ask what the risks
and benefits of the NTI are for *you*.  Of course, you will have to pay
for the care and treatment but the NTI is not a high-priced treatment in
and of itself.  

I don't want to confuse you, but often times, people listen so much to
what other people say or write ... and it's your burden to decide what
value to place on all the information you're offered.  The best I can
offer you is a bit of insight from my perspective.  (Some call that
their 2 cents.)

Webby