How To Stop Your Teeth-Grinding or TMJ Dysfunction The Healthy And Safe Way

May 21st, 2008

If you have a problem with grinding your teeth at night or Bruxism, your dentist may recommend getting a mouth guard. There are several problems with that option, the most obvious being that the night guard will not cure the teeth grinding. But somehow you need to cure your Bruxism before it can be turned into your worst nightmare-TMD or temporomandibular joint dysfunction. When this happens, not only you will experience teeth grinding but you will have more painful symptoms like jaw-cracking, locking of jaw, back pains, neck and jaw pains. Anyway, if your dentist makes a custom mouth guard for you it will not be cheap. These types of mouth guards usually run between $500.00 to $700.00 and they will wear down over time. The mouth guard’s purpose is to prevent further damage to your teeth and so instead of your teeth being damaged you will be “damaging” the night guard and furthermore, night guards to stop teeth grinding can only do it temporarily. If you want to get rid of TMJ or Bruxism for good the healthy and safe way, try to adapt some specific Bruxism exercises which you might find all over the Net.