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The short answer is yes. The most common occurrence is that the patient loses the ability to touch their front teeth together.

When a patient wears an ill-fitting night guard, it can disrupt the natural alignment of the jaws and teeth, leading to various issues, including an anterior overbite. Here's how it can happen:

There’s no room for mistakes in my line of work. As a dentist, I’ve learned the hard way that catching small issues before they turn into big ones is absolutely critical to ensure your best oral health. That's why I wouldn’t use anything less than 7.5x magnification loupes.

Wake bruxism is when you grind or clench your teeth while awake, and night bruxism is when it happens while you're asleep.

Both can cause similar problems, but night bruxism is trickier to deal with because you're not conscious when it's happening.

Indirect dental restorations, such as inlays, onlays, and crowns, have several benefits over direct restorations, such as resin fillings. benefits include:

The tooth fairy would be very proud of this new finding. As this recently published article explains, we already knew that stem cells obtained from human exfoliated decidous teeth (SHED) were fairly clever. They’re known for their ability to replicate, their ‘multipurpose-ness’ and their ability to suppress the immune system.