One of the most persistent dental headlines throughout the pandemic has been how dentists have seen an increase of tooth grinding due to stress - one of the most common causes of daytime bruxing. (“Bruxism” is the clinical term for habitual clenching and grinding.)...
It’s long been thought that bruxing (tooth grinding) and gum disease are linked. Now, a new study in the Archives of Oral Biology sheds some new light on the matter. This small but intriguing study compared tooth grinding among two groups of patients, one with...
How much sleep do you get each night? Did you know that it might affect your teeth? A recent Korean study found that sleeping too little or too much meant more tooth loss than among those who slept 6 to 8 hours nightly. It also meant more diabetes, hypertension,...