Teeth grinding remedies

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

List

We grouped the treatments in the following categories [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.

Pills

Description | Does it work? | References |
|——–|——————|—————-|
Reduce stress using drugs or supplements, eg. CBD oil|Yes, stress reduction helps|Tbd Reduce ☕ coffee intake|Yes, reduction of stimulants can help|Tbd Avoid certain (medical) drugs, like SSRIs|Yes|Tbd Avoid a too acidic diet|Unclear|Tbd Use of muscle relaxants|Unclear|Tbd Avoid stimulants, like ecstasy and MDMA|Unclear|Tbd

Psychology

• Biodynamic devices, a tool that monitors bruxism behaviour, and informs/warns the user about it, eg. using vibrations or a smartphone app. These tools include Jawsaver (smart earbuds), Grindcare, Jawsense, bytesense and others.
• Faceformer, a functional, neurophysiological training program against bruxism.
• General stress reduction techniques, eg. meditation or mindfulness
• GrindAlert

Physical therapy

• Mouth excercices
• Jaw excercises
• HIIT excercises

Plates

• 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.

Interesting reads

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

Support or Contact

Organised by the Bruxism Working Group. Questions: contact Fien.