On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 10:18:20 -0700, mike wrote:

On 9/17/2013 8:57 AM, Jennifer Murphy wrote:
On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 10:37:38 -0500, CRNG
wrote:

On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 07:17:40 -0700, Jennifer Murphy
wrote in
Re How to seal a mouth
guard?:

If that fails, I guess I'll go get a new device. They are about $500, so
if I can make this one last longer, I'd like to.

Thanks for any suggestions.

You could try one of these

http://www.bing.com/shopping/title-b...eces&FORM=HURE

They are a lot cheaper than what the quacks try to sell you, so you
don't have much too lose and you do have a lot to gain.

Those are standard mouth guards. As I said in my original post, they
don't work for me. The "theory" is that they actually cause the rear
teeth to clench more.


Can you just cut off the back end so they don't touch the rear teeth?

The problem there is that it won't stay put. Also, it it's too small,
there's a risk of aspirating it. The NTI grabs the teeth very tightly to
avoid those problems.

Can they stand heat? Bacteria doesn't like boiling water.

No, I was specifically told not to boil it or even wash it in very hot
water. I might have violated that last part a time or two, which could
be part of the reason that it has become degraded.