Involuntarily clenching your teeth during the day

Introduction Unconsciously clenching the teeth during the day is a type of molars. The so-called bruxism refers to those who have habitual molars or white sputum during sleep, and have a habit of grinding their teeth. It is a long-term vicious circle disease. .

Cause

(1) psychological factors such as nervousness, psychological anxiety, depression, and anger.

(2) Gastrointestinal diseases, endocrine disorders can also cause this.

(3) Excessive fatigue, engaged in fine workers, such as athletes, watchmakers, etc.

(4) The lack of trace elements in the body is prone to this disease.

(5) Habitual bruxism caused by long-term molars.

(6) The work pressure is high, the body is tired, and the long-term life is irregular, which leads to the phenomenon of grinding teeth.

In addition to the above-mentioned people, people who are introverted, emotional, and often bitten into the mouth are also prone to bruxism.

Common causes of children:

1. Intestinal parasitic diseases, especially intestinal ascariasis, are quite common in children.

2, gastrointestinal diseases, oral diseases.

3, before going to sleep to the children to eat non-digestible food, so that after the baby sleeps may stimulate the corresponding parts of the brain, through the nerves cause the masticatory muscles continue to shrink.

4, nervous system diseases, such as psychomotor epilepsy, rickets and so on.

5. Children's mental factors such as emotional excitement, excessive fatigue or emotional stress during the day.

6, lack of vitamins, children with vitamin D deficiency rickets, due to calcium and phosphorus metabolism disorders, can cause bone decalcification, muscle soreness and autonomic disorders, often sweating, night terrors, irritability and night molars .

7, the teeth are not aligned, the masticatory muscles are too strong or long-term chewing with one side of the teeth, and the tooth occlusion is not good, temporomandibular joint dysfunction, can also cause night molars. Moreover, children with irregular teeth are often in an abnormal position in their masticatory muscles. At night, the masticatory muscles often contract unconsciously, causing molars.

8. In addition, during the period of changing teeth between 8 and 11 years old, it is easy to produce slight molars due to itching of the gums. During this period, mild molars are normal, and if it is serious, it needs treatment. After this stage, usually Will disappear on its own.

9. The influence of children's emotions and life rules. Nowadays, children usually learn to be nervous and stressed. At the same time, many children watch the thrilling fighting TV in the evening and play excessively before going to sleep. These factors will cause teeth grinding. In addition, if a certain thing is long-term scolded by the parents, causing depression, anxiety and anxiety, there will be nighttime grinding.

It can be seen that the molars are basically caused by certain diseases. Some children have a long time for grinding. Although they have been treated accordingly, the cerebral cortex has formed a strong conditional reflection, so the molar movement at night will not disappear immediately. It is easy to form a habitual molar, especially if the gastrointestinal disease is improved, but the gastrointestinal dysfunction still exists, so the molar movement can not be corrected in a short time, and it must be maintained for a long time to improve.

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Endodontic temperature test (cold and hot diagnosis)

Unconsciously clenching the teeth during the day is a bite-type molar: often unconsciously clenching the teeth during daytime concentration, but there is no phenomenon of upper and lower teeth.

Differential diagnosis

Other types of molars:

1 molar type: often rubbed after falling asleep at night, is the night molars that people often say, when the patient is doing molars or clenching teeth during sleep, because the teeth are often accompanied by a "squeaky" sound, usually called "biting teeth." Because it occurs mostly during nighttime sleep, it is also called "night molars". The patient himself is not aware of it. He is often told by others that he is more concerned about affecting others, especially his spouse.

2 mixed type: both the night molars and the phenomenon of clenching teeth during the day.

Unconsciously clenching the teeth during the day is a bite-type molar: often unconsciously clenching the teeth during daytime concentration, but there is no phenomenon of upper and lower teeth.

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