The disease has a perniciously affecting the state of the nervous system, teeth tissues, jaw joints and muscles and manifests itself mainly during sleep when involuntary compression of the jaw occurs and the next to the teeth takes it to the teeth. Let's figure it out in more detail in the cause of this disease to know how to cope with it.
How to recognize the disease
Contact a specialist for help, which will help find out the nature and cause of the occurrence of bruxism. A neurologist, a psychologist or dentist will produce due diagnosis and prescribe appropriate treatment. If you can learn about the presence of a disease at the initial stage from close people, then with time, the Bruxism can give itself to know the following manifestations:
- drowsiness, irritation, headaches, dizziness, noise in the ears and reduced performance - all this after sleep;
- stiffness and pain in the temporous muscles, back, neck;
- destruction of dental fabric (abrasion, cracks, chips, irregularities) and as a result distortion and bite disruption;
- sharing the dentition.
Causes of Bruxism
Bruxism is a pathological condition that adults and small children suffer. For each age category there are sources of this disease. For childhood, the episodic of the disease is characteristic. The unconscious screaming of the jaws and grinds the teeth in children normally passes to the period when the entire dental row of dairy teeth has already cut down - by 7-8 years. Please note if the disease did not stop their manifestations to the beginning of the change of milk bite on a permanent.
The reasons in this case may be such factors:
- the emotionality of the child, his psychological state and the impact on its nervous system of the environment;
- lack of rest, oversupply of physical exertion;
- poor nutrition and related gastrointestinal diseases;
- dental diseases (incorrect formation of bite, maxillofacial pathologies);
- adenoids, epilepsy, avitinosis, inxication with helminths.
The manifestations of the bruxism in adults can be not only a night character. Slabing the jaws and grinds the teeth may appear during the daytime, it is connected mainly with the state of the nervous system and psyche. Overvoltage, excessive emotional load on the body, anger, stress, discontent, abuse of smoking, alcohol, all kinds of sleep disorders (insomnia, snoring, nightmares, lunatism, enuresis), reception of drugs affecting the nervous system, dental problems (incorrect bite, lack Teeth, defects seals, poor prosthetics), pathology of the facial joints - the reasons for which this disease appears in adults.
Treatment of bruxism
Conduct with the crop of teeth in children will help the definition of the root cause. If suspicion has fallen on helminty, it is enough to pass the appropriate diagnostics, pass the necessary analyzes and drink the prescribed preparations. In psycho-emotional disorders, it is necessary to normalize the day of the day (rest, walking, entertainment, food). Dental problems with success solumed orthodontist (doctor, attending the defects of the facial skeleton structure and the wrong bite), assigning a wearing special kapa, plates or braces.
Traditional adult treatment includes dental and psychological assistance. The work of the dentist is to eliminate dental defects or appointing cappos. Capa is an elastic plate made by writing your jaw and repeating the form and structure of your dentition. It serves as an insulating gasket between the teeth of the upper and lower jaw and contributes to preventing the erase of the tooth tissues.
The psychologist recommends conducting events to normalize a neurogenic background:
- relaxing warm baths with essential oils before bedtime;
- face massage and compresses on it to remove stress;
- receiving soothing funds;
- normalization of the routine of the day;
- forced tension of the face muscles before bed (chewing of apple, carrots, chewing gum);
- soothing yoga intake nervous system.
Bruxism is a dental problem, the etiology of which is not clarified and not fully studied. If you suffer from this abnormal state, you should not hide from this problem, since the consequences of non-treated bruxism are very crying.