A New Technique
I was holding my mouthpiece in my hand on Friday morning and it snapped in half.
I don't know how, exactly. I must have been squeezing it, but not hard. The mouthpiece didn't care. It snapped in half anyway.
I went to the dentist today to get impressions done for a new one (I grind my teeth). The way it's always been done in the past is they put a kind of green goo in trays, put it in your mouth, and you bite down on the goo.
I'm not a fan of this method because I didn't get a great fit last time and kept going back for adjustments which never quite got it right. This is the way it's been done since I was 30.
Today, though, no green goo. Instead, the technician put a wand inside my mouth and started taking pictures. 3,000 over 20 minutes, and they were all stitched together into a 3D-model of my upper and lower teeth. It was amazing, to see all these pictures being slotted into their proper place in real time.
It will take three weeks to get the mouthpiece, but I'm curious if it fits better (it's supposed to). And the procedure was fast, compared to making impressions.
So much better.
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