If you grind, or grit your teeth, moderately, could that make your teeth stronger, in the same way sports and weight lifting strengthen your other bones? Would there be any detrimental effect on them or your gums?
It’s just that most older people have degenerate teeth and gums and I was wondering if there were any radical gimmicks like this that could actually help…
NO!
I have splintered 2 molars with mu tooth grinding.
Do not grind your teeth!
If you do, get fitted with a night guard.
I am not a dentist, nor do I play one on TV. Go see yours,
Thanks for the reply… just to make sure you saw, the key word in my post was “moderately”, sort of like exercise for the teeth ya know.
I think it’s a sound concept based on my limited knowledge of the human body, but who knows?
I went to the dentist because I was clenching my jaw in my sleep due to stress. She took an x-ray and explained me how the mussels around the back teeth were built up from the clenching, they showed up as much whiter than the surrounding tissue. Keep in mind that I had constant pain from my chin to my inner ear for about a month. :eek:
Bones heal. Your body is constantly regrowing them. If a bone gets overstressed, your body will rebuild it slightly stronger.
Teeth don’t heal. Once it forms, the enamel and dentin is all you’ve got. If you damage your teeth from grinding them, your body can’t repair them at all, let alone make them stronger.
A bit shellfish of her, wasn’t it?
Well, you won’t get stronger teeth from grinding them as mentioned above, but you can make your jaw bones (mandible and maxilla) denser with stress,like chewing and grinding. In fact, you can actually make the bones grow and produce swellings of below the gumline.
This is not a good thing, as the volume of your oral cavity can be reduced!
Don’t grind!
Most important, grinding one’s teeth can cause recession of the gums, leading directly to tooth loss. Bad idea. Google for “recede,” “gums,” and “grinding.”
You need to brush your teeth more often:)
:o Yeah my “Mussels”…
I should have learned by now… “don’t trust spellchecker to know what I mean”. I promace two profreed my werk form know on.
Interesting. Actually, I should have been saying “clentching” all along. Any kind of horizontal friction between teeth is obviously not good, but as you said no “clentching” at all could be positive because the body has no mechanism in place to strengthen teeth once they are a little bit stressed and damaged.
This is another good reason to take care of your teeth, huh? (Wonder why your body has no maintenance mechanism in place for your teeth??? That sucks.)
Thanks.