Klarinet Archive - Posting 000801.txt from 2000/01

From: alevin@-----. Levin)
Subj: Re: [kl] playing with braces
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 21:27:36 -0500

I first had such a protector made in 1980. It saved my lip. (Zoloft
hadn't yet appeared.) I only wish that they had been available in the
60's. (Both the protector and Zoloft.)

The key is to have a full upper or lower mold made. The plastic can be
cut with scissors and the edges smoothed with an emery board. That way you
can trim the protector to the smallest workable size. It will continue to
shape itself to your teeth as you use it - and I've found myself still
wearing it at bedtime after leaving rehearsal at 9:00 or 10:00 pm.

Allen Levin

At 10:15 PM 1/23/00 -0500, you wrote:
>From: "Jonathan Smith" <jonsmith@-----.net>
>> I went to a clinic hosted by Ernie Watts once and he showed us a lip
>> protector made for him by his dentist. Sort of like what prizefighters put
>> on before the punching starts. He uses it everyday, and my teacher had one
>> made for himself.
>>
>> Plastic instead of wax, I guess. But dentists are used to taking molds of
>> your teeth; I have a mouthguard for nighttime teeth grinding that my
>dentist
>> did. They took molds of my teeth, and made plaster casts from which the
>> mouthguard was made. They could do that for your braces.
>
>There's literally over a hundred articles in the Klarinet archives on Sneezy
>on this very subject, including making mouthguards out of the sports type
>mouthguards.
>
>Mark C.
>
>
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