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CEREZEN DEVICEPROVIDES TREATMENT FOR TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT DISORDERS DAY AND NIGHT
A recent survey conducted amongst UK dental professionals about their success treating temporomandibular joint disorder found a concerning 80% of respondents had patients suffering from TMJD whom they are unable to help. This is disquieting since 25% of adults worldwide experience the condition at some point in their lives.1-4
It has long been recommended that initial therapy for TMD should be conservative, non-invasive and reversible, and the most widely adopted treatment option to date has been the intraoral stabilisation splint. However, intraoral stabilisation splints cannot be worn while eating or drinking, and they also affect speech, so patients predominantly use them at night leading to a search for an alternative solution for daytime pain relief which does not impact on their ability to speak and eat and is less obvious and obtrusive.
An entirely new and clinically-proven treatment has recently become available to UK dentists. The Cerezen device is an innovative, custom-made in-ear device that relieves the pain and symptoms of temporomandibular disorders. As well as signi-cant efcacy in reducing a patients pain, Cerezen is safe, non-invasive, comfortable and discreet, enabling it to be worn day and nightgreatly improvingpatient compliance levels.
The Cerezen device takes a different approach in...