Why do children grind their teeth at night?

Children are always a group that parents pay close attention to, because children are the future of the family and the new generation that provides hope. The physical health of children is the most important, but children's bodies are very fragile. They need a lot of nutrition and care during their development period, and are also prone to some strange phenomena. For example, why do children grind their teeth at night? This is a problem that many parents have encountered. Let’s take a look at the explanation below.

1. Digestive tract dysfunction: Indigestion, overeating at dinner, and eating too much before going to bed can all cause nocturnal bruxism. Intestinal parasites, especially ascaris infection, can also cause bruxism, but intestinal parasitic disease cannot be diagnosed based on bruxism alone.

2. Nervous overexcitement: Some children play too much during the day, are too excited or too tired, or the kindergarten and parents put too much pressure on their children to study, the parents are rude, they are overly excited before going to bed or watch tense movies and TV shows. These will cause the cerebral cortex of children to remain in an excited state after falling asleep, leading to bruxism. Children with rickets may also have low blood calcium and bruxism. Treatment of such children with vitamin D and calcium supplements often has a certain effect.

3. Oral diseases: caries, periodontitis, improper occlusion of deciduous teeth, inharmonious occlusion during tooth replacement, etc. For children with bruxism, the cause should be found as much as possible and then treated symptomatically.

Why do children grind their teeth at night? The answer to this question is actually quite simple, because children's lives are always in a period of rapid growth. Children in this period are prone to nutritional deficiencies or gastrointestinal problems that lead to teeth grinding. As long as parents pay a little attention in life, this phenomenon can be completely avoided.