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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% | 
14-01-2008, 09:04 AM
| | | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Puget Sound, Washington State, USA
Posts: 50
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I used to grind mine all night long. It would wake me up often enough (as a child). Several of my siblings do to. The teeth grinding ended when I was about 18 when I learned a meditation. I haven't heard that I do anymore and I haven't woken up doing it since then. I know that I do clench my teeth still. |
20-01-2008, 09:42 PM
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Posts: 427
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Well, I said unaware - how are you aware if you are sleeping? - because my dentist told me.
Apparently it's not just my teeth, I've permanently damaged by jaw bone by grinding that too.
My dentist also said either 92% or 98% (I can't remember which) grind their teeth at some stage in their lives.
So basically everyone does it at some stage, it's just a matter of how often. |
22-01-2008, 09:42 AM
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Posts: 261
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While I am sleeping, I continuously grind my teeth! I have been waking myself up the last couple of months, as with the times getting more difficult, my grinding has become more intense.
I used to have a nightguard years ago. But I put a hole in it with all the grinding I was doing. I would have had to get another one and it was too expensive and didn't work anyway.
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24-06-2008, 06:55 AM
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Posts: 301
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I have for 25+ years and my jaws move involuntarily even when I am awake. |
27-06-2008, 10:48 AM
|  | | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: North Carolina, USA
Posts: 816
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wow, I just saw this poll! YES! I've been grinding my teeth since childhood. Was diagnosed with TMJ a few years ago. |
27-06-2008, 11:52 AM
|  | | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Indiana USA
Posts: 62
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Oh and once again I thought it was just me! Glad to know I am not alone doing this. I just started a couple of months ago |
28-06-2008, 12:19 PM
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Posts: 171
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I think I clench. When I'm stressed or have nightmares I often wake up with a sore jaw on one side, but my teeth aren't sore. |
29-06-2008, 11:15 PM
| | | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Norway
Posts: 54
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I voted "unaware".. Though, I've known that I do so since the age of 15-16, I can't seem to stop it before my jaws go sore. Even then it's hard to just stop. |
08-07-2008, 04:59 AM
|  | | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Indianapolis, In
Posts: 90
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Apparently, I do grind them. When I first got married my husband informed me of this. I have no idea why I do this. |
02-08-2008, 02:33 PM
|  | | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Colorado
Posts: 117
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I've been grinding my teeth in my sleep since I was a little girl. Only a few years ago did I have a dentist who was alarmed at the extent of it, and made me a night guard which sort of clips onto my front two teeth. I wore that one down over the course of several years.
Last summer (pre-PTSD), I had a new one made. Since PTSD, I have ground on that one so badly that my lower front teeth have worn down to the point where they don't touch my uppers anymore. I try to bite together, and they don't meet. Now I wear a guard on my lowers too, although the damage is already done. | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
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