Tag: occlusal splint
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Can a splint help if the bite block is not right?
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Can dental splints help with an incorrect bite? Contrary to popular belief, splints are often less effective than expected. Find out why a natural bite is important, how muscle coordination controls the lower jaw and why FaceFormer therapy is a promising alternative for treating bite problems.
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Does FaceFormer® training reduce an asymmetry of the face halves?
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Can the FaceFormer correct facial asymmetries? Find out why such asymmetries are usually not caused by jaw joints of different lengths, but by muscular shifts. Discover how regular training with the FaceFormer can correct these misalignments and why patience is the key to success.
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Can the FaceFormer® be used with passive patients (e.g. vegetative coma)?
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Question Within the scope of my work as a speech therapist, I am always looking after vegetative coma patients with hypertonic orofacial musculature who tend to bite their lower lip. Often these patients are provided with bite splints by their relatives, which seems to me, however, to be of little use. In my search for…
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Does FaceFormer® Training reduce asymmetry of the face halves?
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Question Can the FacFormer also be used to reduce the asymmetry of the halves of the face caused by temporomandibular joints of different lengths, i.e. to improve the appearance? Are there any experiences in this respect? Answer It is essential that you train intensively with the FaceFormer! As a rule, asymmetry in the face never…