Finding The Correct Volume & Insertion

Dr. Steven Olmos shows you how to choose the proper Aqualizer® volume and its insertion instruction.

DR. STEVEN OLMOS: What we'd like to do is demonstrate the different volumes, how to discern between the different volumes, so here, we've got high, medium, and low volume, and that equates to the amount of fluid in these reservoirs that fit between the teeth. Using the wrong volume can either create symptoms, or have no effect at all, and the desired proper fitting is imperative, prior to any kind of diagnostic or therapeutic use of this product. Okay? The most simple technique for finding the proper volume is to mirror the posterior interocclusal space during speech, specifically, the phonetic S sound, so we will have the patients count from 66 to 77, while we determine what this dimension is. Can you please count from 66 to 77, please? FEMALE VOICE 1: 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72-- DR. STEVEN OLMOS: [Interposing] What we're doing with the explorer is demonstrating the area that your eye should be looking and we want to mirror that, so as this person is counting, that what we can see is that we would need about two to three millimeters of interocclusal space. So a medium volume would be ideal for this patient. For this patient, as we've established, we will be using the ultra medium, which equates to about two to three millimeters of posterior interocclusal space. Let's insert it in the patient's mouth like so, and simply--and we ask the patient just to rest on that. Kind of slide that up. And then, just to relax on it. And that is the application.