Teeth grinding remedies

An online, crowdsourced and curated overview of treatments that can help with teeth grinding (bruxism). We hope cureteethgrinding.com gives you your 😊 back!

We grouped the treatments in the following categories (according to the taxonomy used in [1]):

• 💊Pills, meaning drug, food supplements,
• 🧠Psychology, eg. biofeedback tools,
• 🏃‍♀️Psysical therapy, eg. specific excercises,
• 🦷Plates, more specifically all kinds of mouth guards, mouth correction tools,
• Others, including medical procedures.

Psychology

Bruxism is often associated with stress, with specifically emotional stress and anxiety to be the main triggering factor. To avoid bruxism, these causes must be dealt with.

• General stress reduction techniques, eg. meditation or mindfulness
• Biodynamic devices. Tools that monitor bruxism behaviour and inform the user about it, eg. using vibrations or a smartphone app. Examples of biodynamic devides are Jawsaver (in the form of smart earbuds), Grindcare (with a specific device), Jawsense, bytesense, BiteStrip and others.
• Faceformer, a functional, neurophysiological training program against bruxism.
• GrindAlert

Pills

Drugs, stimulants, diets, can cause bruxism, or help you reduce the symptoms

• Reduce stress using drugs or supplements, eg. CBD oil
• Magnesium supplements, eg. these gummies
• Reduce ☕ coffee intake or other stimulants like ecstasy and MDMA
• Avoid certain (medical) drugs, like SSRIs
• Avoid a too acidic diet (?? to be confirmed)
• Use of muscle relaxants (eg. Norflex, to be confirmed) can help you

Physical therapy

Bruxism is caused by increased jaw-muscle activity, as such specific muscle orientated treatments like stretching, trigger point treatment, dry needling can help treat it.

• Mouth excercices
• Jaw excercises
• HIIT excercises

Plates

Occlusal splints (aka ‘dental guards’) work by mechanically protecting the teeth. They typically do not reduce the bruxing activity itself.

• Mouth Guards
• Bite or Dental Correction
• Taping the mouth shut

Others

• 👅Tongue surgery
• 💉Botox injections
• 👃Nasal dilators
• 🌊Correct hydratation

Background

Contribute

This is a crowdsourced list. So if you have comments, additional tools, etc. share them with us. The following people have proposed changes: Fien, Katayoun Omrani, David Scott.

Interesting reads

• [1] “Behandeling van bruxisme. De psychologische benadering”, Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Tandheelkunde, https://hdl.handle.net/11245/1.168736 (in Dutch)