Tag: Attrition

  • Occlussal Splint

    Occlussal Splint

    aka Night Guard To some degree almost everyone will have evidence of dental attrition and abfraction on some teeth. The degree is dependent on age and inherited personal traits. The attrition or occlusal wear is due to anterotrusive and/or laterotrusive excursion that flattens the occlusal contacts while the abfraction is the clenching forces which fractures Read.