Did you Know that Stress Could Affect Your Teeth?

As a lot of people already know, stress or mental tiredness, provoked by the need of reaching a better performance at work or just in our lives, sometimes end up affecting physically and mentally our health. Some of the most common symptoms due to stress are reflected on emotions, for example, where anxiety and depression are sadly protagonist, or thoughts the fear of failure or problems to keep focused. But stress also affects the physical part of our selves through headaches, insomnia and other illnesses able to affect our oral health.

Under stress the behaviour of people also changes and grinding our teeth or tight our jaw becomes, unconsciously in one of the most common problems in patients that visit de dentist due to this issue. However, this is not the one and only inconvenient that stress will provoke in our teeth. These problems make smokers to smoke more or even the alcohol intake is increased, two damaging effects to our gums and our mouth. Moreover, during this stage of accumulated nervousness we tend to forget about our oral hygiene and this, inevitably, will lead us to get bacterial plaque and the possibility to get caries is totally increased.

Of course, in between the best tips to fight against stress, we highlight visiting a specialist to help you to get over it, relax until anxiety and tension totally disappear. Relating to oral health, at Smylife we always recommend visiting the dentist in a regular bases because it will be the specialist the best one to give you the most accurate solutions to each case.

If bruxism is the main problem that stress in causing in your mouth we highly recommend the use of a mouth guard that, same as we talked in our article “Headache? Your teeth could have the answer” they permit the relaxation of our jaw’s muscles and the natural jaw alignment. As you can see, our oral health isn’t safe and most of the health problems, mental or physical, end up damaging it but luckily, now a days we count with hundreds of treatment and solutions to make us smile again.