How to treat teeth grinding while sleeping

Many people may know about the phenomenon of teeth grinding. Even if you don’t know whether you are grinding your teeth, you must have heard others grinding their teeth. There are many reasons for teeth grinding, which are related to worms in the stomach, gastrointestinal diseases, and dental diseases. Frequent teeth grinding is only an external manifestation. The key is to understand the situation and treat the internal causes. So, how to treat teeth grinding when sleeping? Let’s look at the treatment methods below.

1. For patients with brain excitement, try to suppress the brain's excitement by relaxing before going to bed, and prevent teeth grinding after falling asleep.

You can do some light exercise within an hour before going to bed, such as some simple yoga moves, empty your mind, focus on your breathing, inhale and exhale, inhale and exhale, for about 30 minutes. Or adjust your state by relaxing. Patients can read some books, listen to some light music, or give themselves a massage.

2. For patients who are under excessive psychological pressure, use positive self-suggestion method.

In fact, it is not just for people who suffer from bruxism. Everyone should have a normal mind, arrange their work and life well in daily life, and handle the relationship between the two well. While you are busy at work, you should also stop to discover life, learn to live, and enjoy life.

Separate work from life, and before going to bed you can use psychological suggestion to let go of the worries and unfavorable factors that are bothering you. You can also drink a glass of warm milk.

3. There is also a traditional Chinese medicine treatment method, in which the patient can massage the acupoints and stimulate the Xiaguan acupoint to alleviate the condition of teeth grinding at night.

The Xiaguan acupoint is located on the human face. When massaging the depression in front of the ear, the patient can sit in a meditation posture or lie on his back. Use the massage method to place the index finger or middle finger on the Xiaguan acupoint, control the strength, and then massage in a clockwise and counterclockwise direction.

Massage 100 times in each direction until you feel numbness. This massage method is performed three to five times a day. Regularly massaging the Xiaguan acupoint can speed up the metabolism and blood circulation of facial muscles, and it is also very effective in treating toothache and deafness.

In daily life, drink less caffeinated and carbonated beverages, eat slowly, not too fast, and eat less for dinner. For patients who grind their teeth severely, they can wear braces to prevent their teeth from being damaged due to strong friction.