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Started 2 years ago with an OTC boil and bute, sleep quality is night and day (no pun intended),l.

In fact it annoys me greatly if for whatever reason I don't sleep with it because I know I'll be yawning, nodding off, and generally low energy all day.

Highly recommend it at least as a low cost experiment (mine was $70), no issues so far with bite or jaw soreness.



Boil=and-bite only provides cushion between teeth. Sleep apnea mouth guards are designed to thrust the jaw forward, so as to mechanically assist in keeping the airway open. They're so very different in effect and structure that if you feel you're benefiting from a boil-and-bite, you've almost certainly mis-attributed something somewhere.


Not necessarily. Boil & bite mouthguards can help you keep your mouth closed while you sleep, which might be enough to fix your breathing in some cases.


My boil and bite has a hex key lower jaw adjustment same as OSA nightguards, many (but not all) of them do


I've never seen that, but I guess TIL. Can you please provide a link to one?



Can you show us how does it look like? Is it similar to the ones for fighting bruxism?


It covers bruxism, of course, because it literally goes over your teeth, but it's bulkier and has a lower jaw adjustment since it's designed more around your jaw and airway than just your teeth

Mine is from VitalSleep.com (promise I'm not astroturfing, you can find 50 similar products)


$70 for a mouth guard??? A Benlee Bite only costs $6 where I live.


Not the same thing at all, here's mine

Vitalsleep.com




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