Practical Advice for PWP. Teeth Grinding

[beehive23]

Alot of us folks that have pd grind our teeth especially at night, often without realizing it. You might wake up with an unusually sore jaw etc. What i do is buy an otc mouth gaurd found in grocery stores otc med sections. They are 10$ and you can mold it to your mouth. These are, imo, a much better option than the ones the dentist fits to you which often can cost 100$. Hang tough. Cheers.

[Hidden]

Hi Beehive, You are on a roll! Thanks for your suggestions.

[beehive23 in reply to Hidden]

you betcha! 20 yrs of pd ought not be wasted. hang tough! cheers!

[alaynedellow]

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[Despe]

I grind my teeth (have been doing it forever), and I have a mouth guard which my dentist gave to me at $0! The mouth guard I have is very old, but nothing wrong with it. However, I decided to ask my current dentist for a new one. He quoted it at $850.00!!! I thanked him and left his office.

I know there are a lot of options out there for a good mouth guard.

[beehive23 in reply to Despe]

oi! 850$....ridiculous.....hang tough..cheers!

[faridaro in reply to Despe]

$850 mouth guard - must be silver or gold plated

[Despe in reply to faridaro]

Either that or he thinks highly of himself--he is a prosthodontist, the only one in the northern part of my state. I am no longer his patient.

[chartist]

My dentist made a mouth guard that I think he called a Bruxguard for me and he made the lower part so that it applied pressure to a lower tooth that was a little twisted, to try and straighten that tooth. It worked for the teeth grinding but the straightener part kept giving me a headache so I stopped using it.

It all worked out well though because I found out, by accident, why I was grinding my teeth and was able to resolve the problem. It turned out that whenever I had a late evening snack, I would grind my teeth. The grinding was so bad, it would wake me up. Every time I would wake up, I was dreaming that I was eating. After awhile I realized that I would dream of eating whenever I would have a snack later in the evening. I stopped the snacks and the eating dreams stopped and so did the teeth grinding. I guess sometimes you just get lucky!

Art

[beehive23 in reply to chartist]

very interesting ...cheers!

[gginto]

Hey great advice! I got bite guard from dentist and it really helps. Before I knew I was grinding cause my jaw clicked when I ate. Now if I forget to wear it I can’t sleep Thanks again

[beehive23 in reply to gginto]

no problem! glad it will help. cheers!

[Fumaniron]

Excellent advice.

[Rikyster]

Hi. What’s otc? Thanks

[Juliegrace in reply to Rikyster]

Over the counter, meaning no prescription required.

[Rikyster]

Ta.