Dental News - NiteBite user now its strongest advocate

Robert Selleck, DTA

Sun. 1 December 2013

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NEW YORK, N.Y., USA: Kim Stevens, RDH, MBA, OM, has probably placed more NiteBite appliances than any other dental professional in the country. And it’s not just because every patient she has given the device to has found relief from their bruxing. The more likely reason is that Stevens’ own lifelong battle with the condition was brought to an end by the simple device — turning her into a credible and persuasive representative.

“Other devices just protect the teeth,” Stevens said. “This one stops the grinding. It puts the jaw at rest. It’s a restful appliance.”

Stevens was representing the device’s supplier, Keystone Industries, at the Greater New York Dental Meeting, ready to show meeting attendees how simple it is to custom-mold and place the appliance.

Stevens learned about the NiteBite two years ago after one of the dentists she works with in northeastern Missouri brought it back from a conference for his wife to try. It worked, and the dentists encouraged Stevens to try it. It worked for Stevens, too, and she was soon recommending it to patients suffering from grinding, clenching, pain, headaches and jaw joint syndrome (TMD or TMJ). “I have not had one patient say it doesn’t work,” Stevens said.

So many NitBites were being shipped to the small Missouri towns of Hannibal and Louisiana (home of the two practices Stevens is associated with) that the product’s inventor contacted her to find out what was going on. That’s how Stevens ended up taking her NiteBite advocacy national (while continuing to work as a certified oral myofunctional therapist and hygienist at the two practices).

With more than 50 million people (one in six) in the United States experiencing symptoms of bruxing, the market for an effective appliance is immense. However, according to Stevens, the other options rarely provide actual treatment. NiteBite is different, Stevens said, because of its thin construction and placement within the freeway space, which is described as the distance between the physiological rest position and the first point of contact of the upper and lower teeth. The effect is that the muscles relax — and people stop clenching and grinding their teeth. Associated headaches and tooth and jaw pain can also disappear.

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