Mail-order night guards - any recommendations?

Post date: 2020-08-09 17:22:13

I've seen ads for mail-order night guards for teeth grinding: the company sends you a kit to make an impression, then they fabricate and send your guard to you. Some have replacement schemes as well where you can get replacements sent to you. Is this a good option? Anyone have any positive experience or can recommend one of the companies out there that does this? I'm in California, USA.

I use a night guard for bruxism (grinding my teeth). I'm not going to the dentist anytime soon due to the pandemic, but I've chewed holes into the two guards I had at the house.

Factors in my night guard selection:

* I use a CPAP at night and the night guard on top of that is... a lot going on with my face while I'm trying to sleep. Therefore I prefer the thinner option of the two types of guards available from my dentist. (I don't know what this means though and would probably just select whatever the thinnest option is from whatever mail-order company.) (Yes this means I chew through them faster but even .5mm of thickness difference is noticeable with the CPAP in the mix as well.)

* I think they're around $100ish from the dentist for a set of 2. Would love this to be less than that if possible or right around the same ballpark. However, I'm not too hung up on cost since I clearly need it and I don't feel comfortable going to a dental office in the current climate.

* If we ever get out of the pandemic, I do plan to go back to my same dentist and would be fine continuing to get future guards from him, but I guess if this night guard experience is awesome I would make a permanent switch.

Please ask if I forgot any key info! Thank you.

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