Have you ever wondered, what these phenomena have in common, which severely disturb your patients’ lifes ?
Oftentimes these phenomena have a common source : a chronic and para-functional hyper-activity of the patient’s masticatory musculature, mainly during his or her sleep (when they cannot control it consciously).
The NTI-tss significantly reduces this para-functional hyper-activity by limiting occluding contact to the incisors only while preventing contact of canines and molars, thereby limiting elevator contraction intensity to ~30% of maximum.
The NTI-tss consists of a a pre-fabricated acrylic matrix, which by using a thermoplastic material is personalized to fit over the patient’s central incisors. Its essential feature is a „discluding element“, which due to its particular shape provides for a single contact point exclusively between the incisors, which in turn provokes the previously mentioned NTI reflex.