The fundamental pre-requisite is to have a smartphone (both iOS or Android) and to have it always with yourself because it requires some interaction with your smartphone.
Thus, you must be sure to have the possibility of using your smartphone during the day.
Once you set the application, your smartphone emits random sound Alerts.
After each Alert, the following screen will open on your smartphone, automatically with Android or by a notification with iPhone.
This strategy increases awareness of the physiological jaw position, that is “Keep the teeth apart and relax the muscles “.
This is the “message” that should be constantly sent to one individual’s brain thanks to the awareness of the current condition.
This is the neuromuscular “target” toward which the patients should address.
The observation/recording period must last at least seven days, after which the final data can be summarized in intutive graphs.
If needed, it can be prolonged or set into the CONTINUOUS mode, aiming to monitor the course of awake bruxism phenomena over longer periods of time and to try controlling them.
