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Bruxism is an excessive clenching or grinding of the teeth that is not a part of normal chewing movments.  It can lead to excessive wear on the teeth and may camuse permanenet daage to the teeth and the jaw joints.
Excessive clenching and grinding of jaws are not health actions. In some adults and childeren, clenching and grinding may occur during the day or at night. During sleep they have no conscious control over this execcisve clenching and grinding.
The causes of bruxism are still being studied.  A combinatin of physical and psychological factirs are believed t contrubute to bruxism:
  • Physical stress such as illness, nutritional deficiencies or dehydrations particularly in children.
  • Psychological stress anxierty and tension in adults and childres
  • Studies hav shown that night brixism is a sleep disorder
  • Other abnormal anatomy of the teeth or jaws (including hight spots" or fillings, that can cause an improper occlusion (also called bite) and lead to bruxism behaviour.
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