Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I’ve tried tons of snoring solutions and this has been the one I’ve stuck with. I’ve found that jaw advancing mouth guards are the solution that suppress snoring the best. But most of them are awful, painful, huge, annoying, smelly. This guard is the best option of an unfortunate solution. This guard is expensive, for what it does and for the amount of material used. However, it’s a USA product so I can overlook the high cost. It’s a good thing that this guard uses the least amount of material of all the guards I’ve used. It feels better in the mouth, and is less annoying. The hinge feature is key too - I believe it helps prevent jaw pain, which is a huge problem with other guards. It also allows easier breathing and slightly better speaking, although it’s still kind of pointless to try to talk with it in (if you’re in bed with a partner). My jaw still gets ‘stuck’ in the forward position by morning - it’s one of the downsides for these systems. I’m not able to close my mouth and my teeth are super misaligned. I usually have to suck my lower lip for a while to get realignment - but other guards would mess me up so bad that it would be hours before my teeth realigned. So the 2mm advancement of this guard is enough to curb my snoring but not destroy my jaw muscles. These types of guards also jack up the teeth. They rely on leveraging your jaw forward by pushing your bottom teeth forward and your top teeth backward. If there’s a risk of permanently jacking up the angles/structure of your teeth, it’s a risk I’m taking because the benefit is me not snoring at night. These types of guards make my underbite worse, unfortunately. But my dentist hasn’t said anything yet. I don’t understand why these companies don’t redesign their mouth guards to use your back teeth as anchors/leverage points, and remove the front sections that push your teeth all around. So maybe a half star taken off for that lack of forethought in the design. The biggest thing about this guard that pisses me off is that where it’s seemingly cut out of the mold, the edges are super sharp. Not enough to cut your mouth, but enough to ruin my tongue. It’s another downside I’ve just decided to live with. The sharp edge happens to be on the inside of this guard, all along the front edge of the gum line, top and bottom. So all night long, my tongue moves across this rough surface thousands of times, rubbing the tissue and taste buds raw all over the tip of my tongue. I now can’t taste anything on the tip of my tongue because I’ve used the guard for several months. Whenever I get the chance, when I’m sleeping along, I don’t wear the thing, in hopes that my tongue will heal. But that’s a rare instance so I’ve kind of given up on that hope. To the company - this is an embarrassingly obvious oversight that should be fixed, because it would be so easy and might be causing damage to others. In the meantime I keep meaning to try my own fix, so I’ll maybe have an update if I ever get around to it.