Professional Mouth Guard for Grinding Teeth - 2 Sizes 4 Pieces Mouthguard, Moldable Night Guards for Teeth Grinding, Night Guard for Bruxism & Teeth Clenching - Dental Guard Case

I have had a series of bite splints, both the kind made by the dentist and the kind made by me, with kits like this. I have had a hard bite splint and many soft ones. The hard one was a different animal but the soft ones are all variations on the same thing. I don't think the soft ones from the dentist are any better than the ones I make - I end up cutting and trimming and fine tuning them all anyways, and it's easy to do. If you do this enough you get to be a bit of a craftsman with it, and I think that the person wearing the thing is the best judge of how to modify it.I particularly like this kit because the material is a little softer and easier to form. The softness means that if your teeth move a little, this material flexes a little even after it is cooled and it is more forgiving, less like a retainer. I also like that all the material is the same. I have gotten kits where they had hard material for the biting surface and only had moldable material for the sides, and those were the worst. This one is all one material and it all molds. One thing it lacks is a molding tray to shape the outside, but I managed fine without it, using suction to pull it in around my lower teeth and refraining from sinking my upper teeth in, forming the top with my tongue and fingers. If I had saved a molding tray from an earlier kit I might use it again but I don't have one.Frankly I am not concerned about whether it last three months or six - these things get disgusting long before they wear out, and scale builds up which is rough and uncomfortable on the inside of my mouth. You can clean them with Efferdent but I'd just as soon replace them more often, and this kit lets me do that inexpensively. Also, I am only an intermittent tooth grinder, so I go long period without wearing the guards, and during that time my teeth move a little and old guards get uncomfortable. I find it better to just make a new one whenever the old teeth grinding issue flares up again.The kit contains two small and two large. I expected to prefer the small one since I like to put them on the bottom teeth (easier to breathe with them in, if they are on the bottom). And I think my mouth is small; when I have bought other kits in the past I have usually had most success with the small ones. But it turned out the small ones in here are too small even for my bottom teeth. It felt right when I put it in my mouth cold to see whether it would fit, but it shrank up in the hot water and no longer covered my back molars. So only the two large are useful to me. Perhaps the smalls would be good for children. The large was slightly too large and I had to trim it, but that is easy to do with scissors. I trimmed it after it was formed, and reheated just the edge to round off the sharp edge where I cut it.I still have one large one left unmolded, but I am tempted to get a second box just to have on hand. When you need these you really need these, and buying locally you don't have all these choices. I wonder what their shelf life is?

First, let me say I have loved these mouth guards for the past 5+ years. Amazon says I've purchased these 5 separate times. They were great, relatively simple to make, lasted a while, comfortable, and cheaper. I recommended them to many. HOWEVER, I bought some where the package said "new" on it, and I could definitely tell this was a new design. The mouth guards were huge compared to the old ones so I had to trim them down (before the large fit perfectly), and when I went to put one in hot water, I could immediately tell these were not the same as before. They didn't curl in the same nice way, and whatever touched them, like my 100% silicone spatula (the same spatula I used to create all the other mouthguards I've had over the years), my fingers, stuck to the material terribly, and I had an awful time peeling it off. When I did, it left a residue I had to scrape off with my fingernail. It also stuck yo itself and couldn't be peeled apart. I thought, "OK fine, there are 4 in a package, I'll just re-read the directions and try again. Maybe I lost my touch." Nope! I got the second one in my mouth haphazardly, but it was already brittle and unshapable. I put that back in the hot water and tried again with the same issue. The 3rd was worse. I give up and I want my money back. Unfortunately for me, I tried these outside the return window because I trusted that the product would be the same, and I bought 2 boxes because I liked the product so much and wanted to make sure I didn't run out. Man, do I regret now forgetting to take out my mouth guard before vomiting into the toilet when I had a stomach bug recently. RIP my last good-quality Dental Duty mouth guard.

I grind my teeth at night, and I've tried lots of mouth guards. Often, my problem is that I wake up to find that I lost the mouth guard while I was sleeping. I was looking for a really thin option, hoping it would stay in my mouth throughout the night. This guard is okay, but it's not as thin as I was hoping. It's also not the most durable as I bit through mine after a few weeks. Honestly it's not that much better than a cheap athletic guard you could pick up at any store. The instructions are easy to follow and are it's very similar to fitting any other mouth piece. The two sizes are nice. As a male in my early 20s, the large size fit better for me than the small size, but both were usable (they shrink when you boil them). Overall a fine product, but not anything too special.

I've had 2 dental guards in the past, one from the dentist (very expensive) and another that I got through Amazon ($80). I was really happy with the one I got on Amazon before. I had to make a mold and then send it back to them and wait until the guard came back. It worked really well. I needed to get a new one because I got an implant and the old guard didn't fit anymore. I decided to try the dental guard because it cost less and I could get it quicker. It arrived quickly and I watched the demo on how to mold it to your teeth. It was straight forward and I liked that there were 2 large & 2 small guards so you could pick the best size. I have a small mouth and was surprised to find the larger guard was the best fit for my mouth. It's good there were 2 large guards because the first one I left in the hot water a little too long and it shrunk too much. The second time I got it right. The guard fits comfortably. It's a little thicker than my old one, but that's probably better. It came with a case too. I'm happy with this purchase and would purchase another one from Dental Guard when/if this one wears out. The cost and ease of making the guard make it a winner.