{"id":259,"date":"2016-09-11T15:05:50","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T15:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mthollyfamilydentistry.com\/blog\/?p=259"},"modified":"2016-10-12T15:05:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T15:05:28","slug":"teeth-grinding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mthollyfamilydentistry.com\/blog\/teeth-grinding\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Treat Your Nighttime Teeth Grinding"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Teeth<\/a>College was a great time for you. It was just at the right point in your life where you had enough responsibility to feel in control, but were young enough to have a safety net of adults looking after you. You learned so much and met people that you still keep in touch with today. You can trace pretty much every good thing that\u2019s happened to you back to college. You miss those times. The one thing you don\u2019t miss, however, are the mornings. The pounding headaches from nights of partying can stay in the past, as far as you\u2019re concerned. Unfortunately, you\u2019re waking up with headaches more and more these days, and you aren\u2019t even staying up late like you used to. You\u2019re getting plenty of sleep and eating relatively healthy, so what could be causing this? One culprit might be nighttime teeth grinding, or bruxism. What could be a tricky condition can now be easily treated by your dentist at Mt. Holly Family Dentistry<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bruxism and You<\/h2>\n

You do a lot of things unconsciously when you sleep\u2026in fact, you probably do everything unconsciously! You breathe, you move, and some people even talk in their sleep. Others, however, grind their teeth. Bruxism<\/a>, or nighttime teeth grinding, is caused by an involuntary clenching of the jaw. This can lead to a variety of symptoms:<\/p>\n