Something has to take the wear.
For as long as you grind, we would rather it was the guard than your teeth.
For as long as you grind, we would rather it was the guard than your teeth.
Night guards keep failing the same way
Most people who own a night guard are on their second one, or their fourth. The one that came back chewed through in a month. The one that never sat right and ended up on the floor by 3am. The one that seemed fine until a dentist pointed at a molar and said that wasn't there last year.
So they start keeping track themselves. Running a tongue along the same back tooth. Checking the edges in the mirror. Doing quiet math on what the next appointment is going to cost. Is that new. Was that always there. How much longer does this one have.
That is the part we went after. Your jaw produces the same force every night whether there is something in your mouth or not. The only thing that changes is where that force ends up. On most guards it collects on whichever teeth make contact first, and those are the teeth that wear down. Lunate is made from a load-dispersing thermoplastic, one firm material that takes the exact shape of your arch and keeps it, so every tooth is in contact at the same time and a night's worth of force gets shared across all of them. The grinding is still grinding. It just stops landing in one place.
60 nights to find out
Wear it. Boil it, refit it, put it through real nights, the bad ones included. If it doesn't hold up, or it never gets comfortable, or it just isn't doing anything for you, send it back inside 60 days for a refund. You don't have to send it back unused, and you don't have to explain yourself.
A week tells you nothing about a night guard. Sixty nights does.
One boil, every tooth covered, and the wear showing up somewhere other than your teeth.