What causes children to grind their teeth?

Medically speaking, it is normal for children to grind their teeth, and many children have experienced this phenomenon. What is the reason for children grinding their teeth? We know that teeth grinding is a physiological habit. It is most likely to occur at night when people are sleeping, especially in the dead of night when everyone is asleep and children grind their teeth beside them. This is a terrible thing. So we must find out why children grind their teeth.

Children's teeth grinding is caused by the continuous contraction of the chewing muscles, and the movement of the chewing muscles is controlled by the trigeminal nerve. Therefore, any factors that can affect the trigeminal nerve and chewing muscles can cause teeth grinding during sleep. Bruxism is a bite disorder that destroys the coordination of the chewing organs. The body then increases the grinding of the teeth to eliminate the bite disorder, resulting in involuntary teeth grinding. Teeth grinding can occur periodically or every night.

Teeth grinding is not a normal phenomenon, it is a pathological condition. People will lose their baby teeth between the ages of 6 and 14. During this period, they may experience mild bruxism due to itchy gums. However, if they continue to grind their teeth after losing their baby teeth or if they grind their teeth severely during the period of losing their baby teeth, it is a pathological condition. When bruxism occurs, it should be treated promptly, and adults should avoid other secondary diseases caused by bruxism. We should pay more attention to children's teeth grinding, as it will affect the development of local parts of the child's body and destroy the beauty of the child's teeth. Some children may even become introverted and depressed because of it.

Children's long-term nocturnal teeth grinding may also cause a series of complications. For example, the masticatory muscles cannot get rest, causing fatigue and pain in the masticatory muscles and cheek pain; in severe cases, it can cause headaches, neck and back pain, etc. It can also lead to decreased sleep quality, memory loss, bad breath or bad odor in the mouth, damage to hearing and taste, and some patients with severe bruxism can have an asymmetrical face (usually one side of the face is large and the other side is small), leading to psychological depression, pessimism, and even suicide.

The simplest reason why children grind their teeth is that they are teething. When a child is teething, his gums will itch, and when the gums itch, he will feel uncomfortable, so he will want to scratch them, but scratching at this time will cause discomfort. So they start grinding their teeth to relieve the itchiness of their gums. What's the matter with the child grinding his teeth? In addition to tooth growth, there are other reasons. It may be that the child is calcium deficient. It is recommended that the mother take the child to the hospital for examination.