In recent years, your child will become a grind their teeth during sleep? Sometimes so much that you fear: if he hurt them. What is the reason for such a state? How do I stop, treat, how to help your child?
Creak teeth in a dream - it is bruxism - a pathological condition in which there is a spontaneous reduction of masticatory muscles, accompanied by the clenching of the jaws and teeth gnashing.
Adverse effects of gritting his teeth
Possible adverse effects - is often dentists are seeing that bruxism affects the results of dental treatments.
However, the children's bruxism medical community calls false.
1. Baby teeth are flatter than with constant, so grinding and movements that could harm the teeth of an adult, do no harm.
2. Preschoolers will have a change of milk teeth, and it eliminates the need for medical treatment. Their erasure is the physiological norm in children and is not a pathology.
Bruxism: why the child grinding his teeth in his sleep / istockphoto.com
false bruxism
- False bruxism usually begins to manifest itself in 4 years and goes to 6-7. According to statistics, about 20-25% of children faced this disorder, and, as a rule, are residents of megacities prone to stress.
- The emergence of false bruxism is due to increased excitability of the nervous system. The greatest propensity to him have hyperactive children, so thoughtful about the way of life of the child and adjust it if necessary. It should ensure a restful mode, limit action games before bedtime.
- Try to walk more often and to create a favorable psycho-emotional atmosphere in the house, the most comfortable for the child. Try to feed him a healthy and varied diet, let's solid fruits and vegetables, to load the jaw work. Especially useful this technique for 40-50 minutes before bedtime. These procedures will make sleep more relaxed and help you relax.
- In most cases, bruxism preschoolers runs itself. But if the problem you are greatly concerned about and is pronounced, seem to the dentist, neurologist, pediatrician.
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