How NTI-TSS Works

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Begin by gently biting on the moon portion of your fingernail, using your central incisors. Only be forceful enough to create slight discomfort.

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Now attempt to use the same amount of force, but this time bite with a canine tooth on the same spot of your fingernail as you did with the central incisors. What happens? Biting with the canine tooth is suddenly more painful than with the incisors... Why? The incisor teeth are intended to not only incise food, but to be "hardness monitors" of what you're biting into. They are under your control and tell you if something will be to hard to chew.

The canine teeth are designed for grasping and pressing into what it is that you're trying to hold on to (like another animal...see "What canine teeth are for").

The intensity of muscular activity created once the canine teeth have been engaged is under less voluntary control. The message to the brain is: "We've opened our mouth to grab something and have caught it...hold on!" The contacting canine teeth encourages jaw clenching!

Dentistry's attempt at dealing with parafunctional jaw muscle activity (the most destructive of which is jaw clenching) has been to provide alterations of the biting surfaces of the teeth.

How NTI-TSS Works

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An anterior bite plane reduces parafunctional intensity of the masseters, and to a degree, the lateral pterygoids, but still provides canine contact for temporalis clenching.

The NTI-tss device reduces clenching intensity by exploiting the mechanisms of the incisor teeth and by avoiding the engagement of the canine and molar teeth when the jaw is centered (6), and when it is in excursive positions (7).

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For more information please contact
Dr. Nakisher at 248 363-3304.

For more about the NTI-tss go to http://www.nti-tss.com/pts-home.htm

nociceptive trigeminal inhibition
tension suppression system
the FDA has approved for the first time, a device that prevents migraine pain, tension-type headache, and "tmj", without drugs or surgery, the NTI-tss.

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A full coverage splint, usually a thickness which mimics the intended space between the teeth when the jaw musculature is supposed to be at rest, provides both canine and posterior teeth contact, thereby allowing for perpetuation of parafunctional muscular activity.

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By increasing the thickness of the splint, clenching intensity may be altered, depending on the amount of pressure applied to particular teeth. If contacts are "heavier" in the molar region, clenching intensity can be suppressed. If contacting is prevalent in the canine region, clenching is reflexive.

How NTI-TSS Works

How NTI-TSS Works

nociceptive trigeminal inhibition tension suppression system the FDA has approved for the first time, a device that prevents migraine pain, tension-type headache, and "tmj", without drugs or surgery, the NTI-tss.

(3) A full coverage splint, usually a thickness which mimics the intended space between the teeth when the jaw musculature is supposed to be at rest, provides both canine and posterior teeth contact, thereby allowing for perpetuation of parafunctional muscular activity.

nociceptive trigeminal inhibition
tension suppression system
the FDA has approved for the first time, a device that prevents migraine pain, tension-type headache, and "tmj", without drugs or surgery, the NTI-tss.

(3)
A full coverage splint, usually a thickness which mimics the intended space between the teeth when the jaw musculature is supposed to be at rest, provides both canine and posterior teeth contact, thereby allowing for perpetuation of parafunctional muscular activity.