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Average time a tongue guard needs to be worn
Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 9:26 am
by sara2280
Hi! This is probably a long shot as my other posts regarding a tongue guard have gone unanswered, but what is the average time a tongue guard needs to be worn to be effective? Just want to mke sure I wear it long enough that it works and the tongue position will be maintained. My ortho said it was up to me as I would know when my tongue thrust symptoms have gone away.
I had a tongue guard installed yesterday on my lower arch. Haven't had any problems so far.
Thank you for any info!!!
-Sara
Re: Average time a tongue guard needs to be worn
Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2015 1:19 pm
by andbiv
I had tongue spurs on my upper teeth for 6 months. Not sure that it really worked. What kind of lower tongue guard do you have?
Re: Average time a tongue guard needs to be worn
Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2017 6:46 am
by claudiofranck
I know this was posted a while back.
How long did you have it on?
How was it?
I don't have it yet but I will very soon.
I have a choice of tongue spurs or a tongue crib, my orthos choice is the crib she said she was willing to try the spurs if I wanted to. She even mentioned her fallback which would be a tongue crib with spurs as a worst case scenario choice.
The time frame I got is at the very least one year, she would rather have me keep it until the remove brackets.
She told me as well that I would get to top retainers one with the crib for nights and one without for the day.