Stop Grinding Teeth

Teeth grinding has many painful symptoms which are hard to ignore.

These symptoms include:
- Painful teeth in the morning
- jaw hurts in the morning
- feeling pain around the upper jaw below the temples while eating.
- teeth are flat and worn away
- unexplained chips on your teeth
- teeth are sensitive to cold and citrus.
- constant headaches
- constantly waking up during the night

If you suffer from any of these symptoms you may have the bruxism disorder.

Mouth guards are commonly used for people suffering from bruxism. While people believe it is used to stop grinding teeth, that is not always the case. Mouth guards are only used to minimise the "sanding" affect teeth grinding does, but it does not stop grinding teeth. Matter of fact, it does not even cure some of really annoying symptoms such as jaw pain.

Here are some methods that have helped many succeed in treating bruxism. Even though it has helped, you should never use these methods to substitute professional medical advice.

1.Ask your dentist about mouth pieces for you to wear at night. Not only does this reduces the effect bruxism, but also reduces the tendency of grinding your teeeth. Watch out for soft rubbery mouth guards as some people have noticed it makes thing worse.

2. Before you go to bed, try relaxing your self and reduce stress. Methods of doing this could be taking a bath or even meditation. Relaxing yourself can actually prevent you from grinding your teeth since bruxism is mainly caused by stress. It is also recommended that you take some stress management classes, this will teach you some new tricks to relax yourself.

3. Exhausting your jaw is also another method of treating bruxism. This can be done by gargling your mouth for a while or doing some jaw exercising methods. However, your jaw may feel a bit sore if you tried too hard, but on the other hand, you will sleep a lot better.

Good luck!