RE: Re: clenching/grinding - horrible

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OH MY GOSH! I've been waiting for someone to arrive on this board with this

problem! I had the exact same problem with this device. I was not informed

of any risks with this device. In fact, the brochure claims there are no

side effects. If you do a search on Dr. Jim Boyd who invented this

contraption, you'll see he conducts many get rich quick seminars for

dentists to fit patients at very little cost and charge up the butt fees. He

also gives dentists ideas on how to get insurance companies to pay these

ridiculous fees.

What really burns me up is my former dentist did not inform me of these

risks. In fact, when I asked if this could be the cause of my problem, he

said no. Well, after looking at the device, I was certain the form of the

NTI was the same as my newly recessed and dropped lower jaw. I got to

looking on the internet and found that in fact the device can cause this

problem.

Were you notified of any risks? Did you sign a patient informed consent

form?

I plan on contacting the FDA, who approved the device for marketing to let

them know there are problems. I'm also seeking other avenues and I have

about four inches worth of research I've done on this device.

I would love to discuss this with you further. If you're interested/willing,

please let me know.

Now that my blood has cooled a bit...where are you in your treatment? I've

been in braces since March 05 and will be having lower w/possible upper on

November 17.

Take care and I hope to hear from you soon.

Diane, Oregon

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>Reply-To: orthognathicsurgerysupport

>To: orthognathicsurgerysupport

>Subject: [Orthognathic Surgery Support ] Re: clenching/grinding -

>horrible

>Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 01:06:00 -0000

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>This is such a helpful post! Thanks.

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>Like you, I never believed I was a bruxer until I got down to the

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>dentine and it hurt. Dentists had commented before but I didn't

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>believe them. If only I'd listened I'd have more tooth left!

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>One scarey thing that did happen to me that others may be interested

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>in: When I first found out what I was doing I got a splint that just

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>covered  my front teeth, not the back. (it was the back ones that

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>were being worn away). It was called an NTI device and held my jaws

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>slightly apart. It stopped my clicking jaw, but within about 2

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>months I couldn't get my front teeth together for the first time

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>ever, and now I have a permanent open bite. As you can imagine this

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>has been pretty disastrous and I really regret ever getting the NTI

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>device. I wish I'd got something that covered all my top teeth.

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>Maybe it was going to happen to me anyway, but the timing was quite

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>The NTI website says that 5% of all patients who wear an NTI will

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>develop an open bite but that it can be fixed by 'corrections' (ie

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>the dentist grinding away particular bits of the teeth so they all

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>fit together again). Every specialist I've seen has said that won't

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>work in my case, however.

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> > > > > > Hi to all other bruxers

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> > > > > > I just want to shout my frustration that wearing away our

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> > > > > > No one knows for sure, but I think I clench because my

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> > > > > > awful. I have to wear a splint every night to protect

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> > > > > > my teeth and I would so love not to have to do so for the

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