Saturday 2 July 2011

Mental stress is easy to bruxism

A dentist, told reporters his 40-year-old fast, and at night have the habit of teeth, and the work pressure, the spirit of high tension, the frequency of bruxism increased, while the mood is relatively easy when the number of teeth on the night will be reduced. One patient because of his wife drive a car accident led to the death, heart pain, has been unable to let go, two years, every night will be "teeth" to the hospital, we found that facial serious wear, periodontal tissue destruction, loosening of teeth shift , gingival recession, alveolar bone loss.

Emotional stress is the most common risk factors of bruxism. Fear, anger, conflict and repression and difficult to vent emotions, these Dental Instruments emotions would be hidden in the subconscious, and through other means such as teeth periodically shown. Work pressure, thinking heavy burden, fatigue, long life is not regular people are more prone to bruxism, a survey, in the fine workers, such as athletes, IT workers, workers and watchmaker text, designers, physicians and so prone to bruxism.

In addition, eating too much, not the law of life, can also cause teeth. In recent years, as people's work, gradually accelerating pace of life, so "sloppy breakfast, lunch deal, fed dinner," the phenomenon is widespread. As the unreasonable distribution of food, not only affects the absorption and utilization of nutrients, and will increase the burden on the digestive tract. As well as sleep, gastrointestinal tract also accumulated a large number of undigested food, the digestive system needs to be forced to "Jiaye Ban", continuous work, even the muscles of mastication have been mobilized involuntarily contraction, caused by teeth.

Some studies have shown, bruxism is a sleep disorder in a performance. Its appearance in the mild awakening and sleep abnormalities, central nervous system information transfer medium dopamine, norepinephrine and other abnormalities are also involved in the occurrence of bruxism. In sleep, due to cortical activity is suppressed, subconscious reflex jaw closure strengthen muscle tone and rhythmic contractions were apparent change in the bite-and molar-based activity.

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