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View Poll Results: Do You Grind Your Teeth? | |
Yes
|     | 42 | 59.15% | |
No
|    | 11 | 15.49% | |
Apparently, though unaware
|    | 18 | 25.35% | 
25-07-2007, 08:27 PM
|  | | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: New Mexico, USA
Posts: 896
| |  grinding teeth
I wear a night guard every night and still have painful jaws in the morning on bad nightmare nights. Better to wear out the nightgard than the molars. |
27-07-2007, 04:16 PM
| | | | Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 8
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Yes, for the first time in my life I have TMJ. In fact my dentist pointed out the damage done to my teeth from it. It hasn't completly gone away. It comes and goes now versus when I was in the midst of the stressors. |
05-08-2007, 04:32 PM
|  | | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: canada
Posts: 601
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i have actually broken a tooth I was grinding and clenching my teeth so hard at night |
06-08-2007, 03:53 PM
|  | | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: charles town, wv (usa)
Posts: 1,267
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voted unaware. dentist has to replace/repair fillings frequently, and hubs tells me i grind them in my sleep. clenching is a problem in the day. |
06-08-2007, 08:34 PM
|  | | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: USA
Posts: 1,946
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I voted NO because I haven't grinded me teeth in years that I know of. I have however, and to an exaggerated degree, in the long past when I use to binge drink alcohol. I think during taking some different medications this caused me too, to grind my teeth, though the duration of taking those med's were always short-lived. |
01-01-2008, 05:01 AM
|  | | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Florida, USA
Posts: 1,221
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I grind my teeth and clench my jaw so bad that I actually broke a tooth off that had a root canel done on it years ago. |
04-01-2008, 04:53 PM
|  | | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: midwest
Posts: 960
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I didn't realize I was doing it until Hubs asked me once what that noise was. It was the squeak/crunch noise my teeth make when I clench then shift them. I do this constantly, especially if I'm angry. |
08-01-2008, 10:24 AM
|  | | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Ontario
Posts: 1,910
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I clench quite a bit but have to remind myself not to. I have two broken teeth right now as well.....never had a problem before my PTSD. I am afraid to go to the dentist due to the smothering feeling......something I definately have to work on. |
10-01-2008, 02:02 PM
| | | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: hollidasyburg pa
Posts: 35
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does chewing your tounge count? if so YES
sally |
12-01-2008, 11:33 PM
|  | | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: San Francisco CA USA
Posts: 45
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