What is Bruxism

Bruxism

Bruxism is periodically arising in a dream the parietal reductions in the chewing muscles, accompanied by the compression of the jaws and the brine of the teeth. Data on the excavator of the bruxism is contradictory. Some sources indicate 1-3% of the population of suffering by bruxism, others call 5-15%, and up to 50% among children.

The causes of bruxism can be different, apparently not still identified. A widespread non-medical point of view that bruxism is caused by worms, does not have significant grounds for.

Bruxism is often observed in patients with defects in the structure of the facial skeleton, bite disruption and the pathology of the joints connecting the lower jaw with the temporal bone. However, orthodontists more adhere to the point of view that the erasability of the teeth and as a consequence of the violation of the work of the temporomandibular joints is rather due to the consequence of bruxism. Most doctors converge in the opinion that the majorized bruxism factor is stress.

In adults there is a night grinding of teeth after such emotional events, as a loss or disease of loved ones, participation in hostilities, a collision with criminal elements, parting with a loved one, defeat in a sports match or competition.

In children, like less protected from psycho-emotional stress, bruxism occurs more often. And the reasons can be much easier - a terrible film viewed before bedtime, passion for role-playing computer games, conflict with parents, teachers or coarse, upcoming speech at the school evening or approaching exams.

Epizodically Bruxism, probably arises from most people, and nothing terrible in it. Often the phenomena of bruxism arise after conducting extensive restorations or crowns. Therefore, orthopedists always establish patients temporary designs. In the manufacture of veneers on the front teeth during the first 2 weeks, night wearing special protective cappps or articular tires is recommended.

Chronic bruxism against the background of stress leads to the pathological erasability of the teeth and their destruction. There is a decrease in bite in the field of chewing teeth, as a result, the overload of the temporomandibular joints is developing. Over the years, violations in the work of the joints, called the common name «Temporable Low Land Dysfunction», lead to the appearance of head and muscle pain of various location. The process can go so far that the patients and patients desperate in obtaining assistance and the patients show a tendency to suicide.

If you have bruxism, you can help yourself, without waiting for complications:

• Analyze the stress factors to which you are subject to, try to exclude them or minimize.

• Take on autotraining before bed - relax.

• Try to control yourself in a dream - relax the chewing muscles as soon as you feel that they start strain.

• If you have bite disorders or erasure, contact the dental clinic to orthopedic or orthodontist, having experience with joints.