It’s all well and good being at the top of your game as a business person in London. You earn great money, you have a lovely house, the kids love their school and all the parties and you all love those holidays. But how do you sleep at night? If you are waking up with a sore jaw, sore teeth or headaches, you need to get yourself to the dentist in W1.
One of the downsides of being busy and successful is the stress and for many of us this can show up as temporomandibular joint disorder, or TMJ disorder for short. This is a disorder of the jaw joint and nearly always comes from clenching or grinding your teeth at night. It’s one of the body’s ways of dealing with stress and night-time grinding can wear away your back teeth, causing them to eventually split or crumble.
Here at Harley Street Dental Clinic, your dentist in W1, we see quite a few patients coming in with TMJ issues, which can also be caused by the top and bottom teeth not fitting together properly.
Here are some more symptoms indicative of TMJ disorder:
- Clicking in the jaw
- Facial pain
- Neck and should pain.
Night-time bite guards
The first thing to do is protect your teeth from damage. The bite guard is made from hard plastic and is made to measure. The idea is that when you wear it at night, it will keep your teeth in a position that relaxes your jaw muscles.
Cerezen
Cerezen is the brand name of a tiny appliance that fits inside your ear canal. They are custom-made, 3D-printed hollow inserts that fit inside your ear. They are tiny and discreet, which means you can wear them all day, which is harder to do with a mouth guard. They are a bit uncomfortable if you try to clench your jaw, so when you do, you’ll soon relax it again.
The inserts can’t get lost inside your ear and have a tiny tab on them so you can easily pull them out.
Come and see your dentist in W1 and let us help you get rid of those headaches.