Is there a temporary way to prevent two maloccluding teeth from impacting one another?

If one's bite is bad and two teeth are constantly impacting one another causing pain problems, is there an advisable way to prevent impact from constantly occurring, for example, with a squishy, gummy piece of rubber which can be held between the teeth? (Prior to getting real orthodontics).

My prior research has been asking a dental hygienist who responded in the negative and googling "prevent teeth from impacting" or similar but with often results on topics I wasn't looking for due to keyword mismatch.