TEETHCLICKING

Myofunktional Exercise  Collect ion

Application:

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This exercise is used for all forms of Adductor hyperactivity as, for example, empty chewing, grinding or pressing.

Contents:

The matter of this exercise is the tactile-aesthetic sensitivity for a self-monitoring and function corrective for day as well as night time at best in combination with a mental training.

Materials:

(Molar teeth, as far, as available.)

Procedure:

- Previous exercises: Exercises for the tonicity regulation of the broader environs as with the RESTPOSITION and its components.

-Starting position: RESTPOSITION, ,L-M'-POSITION (DRAWER-IN)

- Step-by-step-description:

-1 The patient concentrates on his oral cavity (in this situation AT (Autogenous Training) may be adapted).

-2 Now, with a faint ‘Click’ the patient taps the incisors together suggesting the resulting feeling being extremely unpleasant.

-3 This procedure is repeated with the molar teeth on the right and on the left side.

-4 The patient internalizes:”When I sense this ‘Click’ I will immediately go back to the RESTPOSITION”, which he then adopts consciously.

These steps should be practiced as well over the day on the occasion of short breaks as before going to bed as to get in the right mood for the night time behaviour.

For a foreign or self manipulation the may be ,TAP-TAP'-EXERCISE introduced.

-Timing:  The patient should take his time for the four steps, no less then one minute.

Depending on the own ability to concentrate and the state of training the step sequence is passed through once or several times.

Characteristics:

Sensory, Self monitoring (tactile aesthetic), Organ Stereognosis, Orientation, Myobalance, Feed-back, Tonicity reducing.

Remarks:

The method is as well suitable for adults as for children; in any case the treatment should be responsive to the special patient psychically. Cooperation with a psychologically trained therapist may be recommendable.

Discussion:

By memorizing the well defined body sensation ‘Click’ consciously a trigger is turned on which jumps to action in the mode of a bio-feedback as soon as the teeth come in contact in the perspective of an empty chewing dysfunction. To difficult cases the therapist may mediate: „Teeth do not belong upon each other”! and illustrate the possible damage to him as loosening of the teeth, abrasion, muscle and joint pain).

Furthermore the patient may be instructed to support the mandible against the maxilla through the tongue tip (Tongue tip to the POINT) instead (see chapter TONGUE PROP). This will be practicable as well during the RESTPOSITIONas during the act of swallowing.

Comparing the exercise TIRE OUT CHEWING

with the here discussed the before described is mainly based on the physical side while here the psychical, mental component is coming to the fore.

To a limited degree this exercise will also be helpful fore people wearing dentures. These patients will have to be put in a position to get their orientation without the Tactile Aesthesis of the dental periodontium but exclusively from the pressure stimulus upon the mucosa surface or the bone conduction (osteophony). With the described method it is possible to avoid the mostly irksome and for other people extremely embarrassing balancing about of prosthetic parts in the mouth which always causes negative conspicuousness optically and acoustically.

Instructions:

The chewing muscles should not tense up. As such a harmful tensioning mostly always happens unconsciously it needs a lot of concentration to build in a warning signal, an “Alarm clock” in the unconscious which will react on the tensioning from a special signal.

This signal is the TEETHCLICKING.

Primarily you should concentrate on the feeling within your mouth. Folks who know about Autogenous or Mental Training may get some help of this. If the chewing muscles are going to tense uncontrolled the teeth are setting upon each other quite intensely – the TEETHCLICKING. This happens either with all or, with the front or the right or the left teeth. If you can feel that plainly you already have won.

You can immediately go into the RESTPOSITION as well over the day as during the night.

To procedure in particular:

People who tend to working with their teeth without chewing foodstuff – this is generalized the teeth grinding- must learn to control his mouth muscles. Otherwise it will cause damage.

Start with the RESTPOSITION which is put together from the ,L-M’ with the DRAWER-IN.

Next the controls, the ‘Think Machine’ must be sorted out. Therefore you give your head the order:”Quiet!

Next you concentrate upon your mouth.

You should completely avoid to get your teeth in touch. Teeth must never directly hit each other!

To get a feeling what is strictly prohibited at first the incisor teeth are clicked against each other

- and with this you realize: “This is an awful feeling which will start the whole trouble!” And the same for the molar teeth. You click them together, left at first, then the right side; and every time you say:” “This is an awful feeling which I will avoid”!

Afterwards you, again, take up the comfortable REST POSITION and then shake out the mandible to relax, softly up and down, never left or right or forth and back!

(For this you may let them show you the  ,TAP-TAP'-EXERCISE.)

Even when swallowing you can avoid this harmful TEETHCLICKING.

The mandible wants to find a firm hold against the upper jaw. This also works without tooth contact when you build up the necessary support lower against upper jaw with your tongue instead of the molar teeth. The tongue will, anyway, constantly sit with its tip on the POINT leaning its back against the palate.

At the beginning you should repeat the whole procedure several times just for training.

If you, then, are finally in control of this exercise, two or three rounds are sufficient.

You absolutely should do that before going to bed but as well once and again over the day, maybe after a meal.