What is a Dental Appliance?
Maintaining good oral health is more than just brushing and flossing. If you play sports, clench or grind your teeth or snore, dental appliances can help preserve and protect your oral structures and contribute to your overall health.
Dental appliances offered at Centre Dentaire St-Luc, such as mouth guards and sleep appliances, are used to help protect the health of your oral cavity.
Snoring & Sleep Apnea Appliances
Sleep disorders can disrupt your sleep and negatively impact your overall health and well-being.
For patients who snore, relaxed throat tissues restrict the airways, producing the snoring noise. For patients with sleep apnea, these tissues obstruct the airways, forcing the brain to awaken them to breathe.
At Centre Dentaire St-Luc, we provide custom-fitted oral appliances to move the lower jaw and tongue muscles to open the airway. This helps improve your breathing and may prevent you from waking up throughout the night.
Custom-Fitted Mouth Guards
We offer custom-made mouth guards that fit over your teeth to protect them from damage.
Sports Guards
If you get hit in the mouth during a sports activity, a mouth guard provides a barrier between your teeth and the soft tissue of your mouth to protect your smile.
Night Guards
Do you tend to grind your teeth during your sleep? This can lead to chipped or fractured teeth, dental wear, jaw pain, headaches, and other symptoms caused by stress on the jaw.