bite plate

Treatments range from ice packs to bite plates or, in a small number of cases, surgery.

A channel in the middle of the bite plate makes it easier to take more air in through the mouth.

A simple palatal bite plate may correct this problem.

The device is a bite plate soft enough to conform, over time, to the shape of the upper and lower teeth.

Jared asks, trying to articulate through his bite plate.

They also soothe the owners of the missing purple outfit, the homemade boat, the bite plate.

The minute my Kevin gets off that bus it's goodbye bite plate!")

Splints, also called bite plates, are a common dental treatment for TM disorders.

Adults and children who grind their teeth at night should have a nocturnal bite plate or bite splint made to prevent tooth damage.

Or Bunk Junk, a canvas holder for bite plates or eyeglasses, which hangs on the rail of a cot.

Occlusal splints (also termed bite plates or intra-oral appliances) are often used by dentists to treat TMD.

The lips have a bite plate in the back; when the plate is held between the teeth, the wax lips cover the wearer's own lips, to comic effect.

If you grind your teeth at night, a special mouth guard-type of dental appliance - called a nocturnal bite plate or bite splint - may be created to prevent tooth damage.

After viewing his colorful etchings of the 1950s, art critic Alfred Frankenstein observed that Kasten had "discovered a new softness, liquidity, and fluency of effect in the bitten plate and with this a new way of expressing the modern artist's preoccupation with space and movement."

He metes out punishments for acts like shoving a fellow commuter on the Metro-North railroad, walking off with a gym bag with a child's bite plate inside and urinating on the stoop of the local dry cleaners (a violation known in the village code as "deposit of offensive matter").