A lot of my patients grind their teeth at night.
Now, they ask why you know I can't control it?
I'm asleep
I don't even know I'm grinding.
But sure sometimes they wake up with pain
in their jaws, pain in their teeth
and it can cause a lot of sensitivity in teeth.
It can also cause notching by the gum line.
And also, of course wear on the teeth
to make them shorter and shorter.
Now why do people grind their teeth at night?
Well, as you know at night when the body sleeps and rests
and recuperates that's when all the healing occurs.
And that's when the body the subconscious moves in
and it starts taking over the healing of the body.
Now if the jaw joint or the teeth
are actually forcing the jaws to sit in the wrong place.
The body intuitively knows this.
And while she's sleeping it tries
to get the jaw in the right alignment i.e.
get rid of the teeth that makes them sit in the wrong place
and grind them away.
So that's what happens.
And that's why people grind their teeth at night now some people also
find they clench you know unconsciously during the day
because basically there's so much tension built up
and the body knows instinctively that perhaps the jaw
joints and the muscles are sitting in the wrong place
and the teeth are what's controlling that.
So the body wants to try and get rid of that.
So what is in effect happening is a muscle - tooth war.
Okay and the clenching and grinding is a response to that.
And how do we stop it?
Well, there are lots of different ways.
So tune in and we'll talk about that next.
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