# Occlusal Guard Delivery Process
## Introduction
[3] Alright. So we're ready to deliver our occlusal guard. And the way that I like to deliver mine is to, put it in a little bit of heat to get rid of any kind of, potential warpage that might have occurred in the curing oven or any inaccuracies in the intraoral scan or design. So, I typically have some really hot water, about 200 degrees Fahrenheit. I'm gonna drop the appliance in there for roughly about thirty seconds.
[38] Be careful not to burn yourself when you take it out. I like to use some hemostats, and I'm gonna pop it out. Wanna just let it cool off for just one or two seconds, and I'm gonna go ahead and try it in. And close down all the way for me. Tap, tap, tap, and squeeze, and open.
## Cooling and Fitting
[65] K. And I'm just gonna let it cool completely before I take it out. And, it's gonna once it gets back to mouth temperature, it's gonna get fully rigid and back to, a a memory stable shape. Also, you'll notice that close down for me, if there was any little asymmetries in the bite that might have happened from design or support removal or warpage or any kind of error, they'll be fully equalized here with a little bit of heat.
[94] So let's go ahead and check the effusion really quick. I'm just gonna dry the prosthesis. First, I'm gonna check with the horseshoe paper and tap tap for me and hold it. So I'm looking for it to grab, open for me. I'll do one side, tap tap and hold. Open. Tap tap and hold. Open. Tap tap and hold.
## Occlusion Check
[128] So I like to check, static occlusion first and take a look and see how equal my marks are. So we have a nice adequate pattern and distribution of marks spread throughout the arch. You could see here we're hitting, molars all the way up to premolars across the anterior and all the way back down to second premolar with nice little pinpoint, marks.
[161] So now we'll check excursive. So I'm gonna go ahead and place this back in. And to check excursives, I'm gonna get a thinner articulating ribbon. And I'm gonna go ahead and have the patient close all the way down, tap, tap, and slide towards me. Good. Open. All the way down. Tap, tap, and slide forward. Good. Open.
## Final Adjustments
[195] That looks really good. I'm looking for some ramps on the anterior and posterior disclusion. Now I'm gonna check cuspid rise. Tap, tap, and slide to the right, and open, and relax. Tap, tap, and slowly slide to the right, and open. Tap, tap, and slowly slide to the left. I'm looking for disclusion on this side, and cuspid rise on this side and open. And it looks like we have anterior guidance and posterior disclusion just from a flat plane without even trying to build in, guidance in in the design software.
[235] And we have adequate retention that's not painful. And you could see here our, cuspid ramp here and our cuspid ramp here looking really good. And that basically is an occlusal guard delivery in a nutshell. They should be super fast using the power of thermoplastics and heat, to be able to accommodate any slight errors that were done in design or in fabrication, and the patient should leave with a very comfortable appliance.
