Why can't I wear the SleepRight® for more than 12-hours in a 24-hour period?

You cannot eat while wearing the SleepRight® dental mouth guard so it is unlikely you would be able to wear it all day long. Statistics show most people sleep an average of 6 – 8 hours each night so they would easily fall under the 12-hour limit. Please remember, this is not a custom made device. The SleepRight® uses natural tissue retention between your lips, cheeks and tongue to be held in place. There are no clasps that attach to the teeth to hold the appliance in place. We don’t want you to become so used to it that you forget your primary goal to concentrate on “lips together and teeth apart”. We also want you to have a rest break from having anything in your mouth. Each time you remove and replace your SleepRight® dental mouth guards, you go through a small adjustment period, as it is re-introduced into your mouth. Each new experience adjusting to your appliance is a very important step in the first phase of the learning process necessary to eliminate the clenching and grinding habit… “awareness”, which is part of our philosophy. This break in the wearing cycle gives you an opportunity to evaluate your progress in the learning process to keep your “lips together and teeth apart”. We don’t want anyone to be dependent on dental mouth guards forever. We have developed a philosophy, which has been clinically tried and tested that will help the astute user learn how to change a bad habit. It’s a learning process we call the cycle of competence. Awareness, accountability and behavior modification are the three simple but very important phases to this learning process.