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GERGEN’SOrthodontic Lab · Since 1986

Splints & Night Guards

NTI Deprogrammer

An anterior stop, nothing else in the mouth. The smallest way to switch the elevator muscles off.

NTI Deprogrammer: product photograph coming soon

Removable · Scan or impression

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Scan or impressions, a bite where the design needs one, and a signed prescription. If anything on the Rx is left open, a technician calls your practice before the case is started.

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The NTI covers four incisors on one arch and carries a single discluding element the opposing incisors rest on. With no posterior or canine contact the temporalis and masseter cannot fully load, which is the mechanism behind its use for clenching, bruxism and tension-type headache.

We make it in hard acrylic or light-cured resin to your specification, upper or lower. Because it is small, retention and the exact position of the stop matter: send a bite at the vertical you want and tell us the arch. It is a short-term or supervised appliance; tell the patient so.

Commonly prescribed for

  • Clenching and bruxism
  • Tension-type headache and migraine prevention
  • Muscle deprogramming before records

Construction and adjustment

Coverage
Anterior only, four incisors, one arch
Occlusion
Single anterior discluding element, no posterior or canine contact
Material
Hard acrylic or light-cured resin
Bite required
CO, opened enough to clear the posteriors

You specify

  • Upper or lower
  • Material
  • Discluding element width

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