Can We Repair Your Teeth if You Grind Your Teeth in Your Sleep?
Posted on 2/7/2022 by Cole Anderson, DMD, MS
Teeth grinding can impact your teeth in a number of ways. If you persistently grind your teeth, you expose the tooth enamel, making it vulnerable to contract oral infections. You could easily suffer from conditions like dental cavities and tooth decay. This condition could also make your teeth lose and cause fractures in extreme cases. Therefore, it is vital to have your teeth repaired if you grind them at night. Luckily, we have a team of highly experienced professionals that can repair your damaged teeth in no time.
The Teeth Repairing Procedure
Grinding often leads to cracks and dental chips. Untreated cracks and chips can lead to your teeth breaking off at their base, making them extremely uncomfortable to use. As a result, you will have to undergo root extraction that leaves you without a tooth. Fortunately, you can avoid all that. It would help if you came in for tooth repair operations as soon as possible. Depending on the severity of your tooth, we might need to use a dental bridge, dental crown, or an implant crown.
If grinding didn't cause significant damage and only caused a slight chip, we use bonding or porcelain veneer to fix it. Minor dental fractures only need dental fillings and several other alternatives. If you have fractured your front tooth, our dentists will use bonding or composite resin to repair it. This helps restore your smile. With bonding being a simple procedure, you don't need numbing. Our dentists will roughen up the affected tooth and then apply an adhesive to get it done. After that, the bonding material is applied, shaping your tooth into its natural shape. This goes a long way in restoring your smile! Therefore, if you have a damaged tooth due to grinding, come in for treatment immediately! Please schedule an appointment with us for more information on the effects of grinding.
Teeth grinding can impact your teeth in a number of ways. If you persistently grind your teeth, you expose the tooth enamel, making it vulnerable to contract oral infections. You could easily suffer from conditions like dental cavities and tooth decay. This condition could also make your teeth lose and cause fractures in extreme cases. Therefore, it is vital to have your teeth repaired if you grind them at night. Luckily, we have a team of highly experienced professionals that can repair your damaged teeth in no time.