He bruxism Sleep disturbance is an involuntary habit that affects more than 20% of the population It is a global phenomenon. It produces consequences for both the stomatognathic system and the rest of the body. Recent research suggests that mouth breathing may trigger it and/or increase the severity of its effects. Not all patients with sleep bruxism necessarily have mouth breathing, but all patients with mouth breathing do have bruxism.
Mouth breathing not only affects the quality of the air entering the body (laden with impurities, cold, dry, and poorly prepared), but also forces the body to adopt incorrect skeletal and muscular positions (neck, head, chest). This, in turn, produces long-term disorders of the stomatognathic and orthognathic systems, as well as deviations of the spine, hips, and soles of the feet, not to mention the muscle pain that occurs when these abnormal positions are adopted for breathing.
Bruxism is related to brain activation that produces awakenings at intervals, although the person suffering from it does not remember them; these brief awakenings alter the normal course of sleep, resulting in waking up tired, drowsy, with pain in the chewing muscles, hypersensitivity in the teeth to thermal changes, tooth mobility, tooth fracture, difficulty opening the mouth (especially upon waking), joint noises, and many other alterations of the complex stomatognathic system and general health (headache, pain behind the eyes, painful points in the facial muscles, neck pain, feeling of fullness in the ear, etc.).
That is why it is necessary to treat these cases as soon as possible; if you suffer from bruxism, come and we will help you.
