being woken up by the sound of your own teeth smashing together...

[na§tee]

is not cool. this happened to me tonight.

man, i suffer from muchos bruxism (teeth grinding, folks). and normally it doesn't interfere a lot - apart from, um, a very painful jaw in the morning and headaches. when i have a bed partner :( my boyfriend has to wake me up to stop the noise because it drives him crazy (and also he is apparently concerned about my dentistry, which is cute). he normally tries to wake me up by rubbing my jaw and soothing "aww baby, you're grinding your teeth.." and then when that doesn't work he lifts my entire torso up and goes "CLAIRE YOU'RE GRINDING YOUR TEETH IT'S GOING TO HURT IN THE MORNING AAGHGJHGJGHJ!!" and then i temporarily stop.

apparently (i read this online ages ago - i do believe i have made a bruxism thread before, lolz, but i cannae find it so i made another) it is tonnes and tonnes of pressure. last night i had those crazy couple of seconds when you're waking up but your body hasn't and could actually hear the teeth grinding, and it was horrific. for a couple of horrible moments i actually thought i had shattered my teeth and had to check about 10 times that, no, they were all secure and complete. god. terrified.

(i recently read a story in the guardian about a journalist whose front tooth shattered as a result of her not wearing her teeth-grinding night guard and have been plagued with similar thoughts!)

i do have a night guard but it is hugely unsexy and it hurts like hell wearing it. it is so tight on my gums. so i have to go and visit the dentist for the first time, oooh, in five years and get a check up and NEW mouthguard, methinks. YAY! i'm actually looking forward to it. i know it will be expensive but i will feel good after having a mouthal MOT. did you know scotland has one of the world's poorest dental records with a third of children and a half of adults not registered with a dentist? well, now you do. my teeth aren't actually in a bad state, it's just the nighttime goings-on.

i was prescribed valium once for it and it was GREAT and totally helped but my doctor was concerned about the um, addictive qualities of long-term prescription so i didn't get another. damn. and my boyfriend had to check if i was breathing all the time because he thought i was dead (you breathe super shallow after taking valium). awesome.

anyway. yes. look after your teeth, kids!

i am bored.

[Mr Films]

your name is Claire.

that's a nice name.

[na§tee]

thanks!

according to the breakfast club it's a fat chicks name, though :mad:.

sometimes i don't like it. one syllable. too many vowels. FAT.

[befsquire]

bobby always sounds like he's trying to bite his teeth out. he isn't grinding them, really, it's more like he's eating really hard but there's not any food there.

claire is a nice name. and i don't think fat when i hear it. if anything, i think of claire danes.

[tracky]

i grind my teeth at night sometimes. i've never had anyone here to tell me, but I know I do. I wake up with a sore jaw and shit especially when i'm stressing. i told the dentist recently and he agreed and said i could get a guard to wear at night, but fortunately i don't do it all the time, just when i'm heaps depressed

[trailerprincess]

I like going to the dentist and recently joined a new surgery. My dentist told me that I was a 'tongue thruster'

It made my day :)

[Rancid_Beasties]

I wonder what people who have bruxism would be like on ecstasy or similar drugs. Would they grind heaps more, or would they cancel each other out? Probably the former.

[fucktopgirl]

^ they would swallow the powder of their own theeth because of too much grinding!

[Tzar]

rach just recently got her plate for bruxism. she's saying it works like a treat. (y)

[Nivvie]

Poor Claire:(

Go to the dentist, and if you can find and NHS one, marry him while you're there. Or her, dental care is far more important than sexuality.

Have you tried eating raw carrots and apples before bed? The manic crunching is supposed to get out all your jaw energy. I knew someone who did that, then had a bath, and slept with an aromatherapy burner thing next to her, pumping out lavender to keep her relaxed all night.

[na§tee]

dental care is far more important than sexuality.
haha! (y) this should totally be the new theme for the nhs scotland adverts. lolz.

my body says i'm stressed but i'm more bored at work. i guess i am massively frustrated at the direction of my life at the moment (or lack thereof), being in a job i don't want to do at all and coming to the end of a year where i have, in reality, achieved absolutely zero. and i'm worrying about 2007 and how i can change all this but that i'll probably be too lazy to do it. ack.

i have never tried e and i don't think my dental night time escapades would help with the constant gurning and hugging. i'd rather not.

i'll try the carrot thang though. that sounds cool. munchmunchmunch!

[cosmo105]

sometimes my boyfriend gnashes in his sleep. it freaks me out because sometimes it's pretty loud and wakes ME up but not him (i'm a light sleeper, he's a deep one). just the thought of the sound of it gives me the shivers. oog.

you haven't been to the dentists in FIVE YEARS?! you need to go every six months for a cleaning! seriously, i take obsessively good care of my teeth on my own, but i went through a period when i didn't go for five years, and when i finally went in i had ELEVEN cavities! it was miserable! i had never had a single cavity before that. since then i've been going every six months for cleanings and the last time i went in, my dentist was shocked. he said, whatever you're doing, keep doing it - your teeth are perfect! :cool:

[Tzar]

i haven't been to the dentist in that long either *whistles innocently*
but i haven't had any problems with my teeth just as yet.

[na§tee]

cosmo, there's a bit of a dentistry crisis in scotland. i really wanted to go, but i just couldn't afford it. i, and millions of other scottish people, don't have a registered dentist because thousands of dentists just refuse to take on nhs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Health_Service) patients anymore. my old nhs dentists at home have probably struck me off the register. i couldn't go home because it's on an island and i, uh, live on the mainland. eek! now that would be dedication!

of course, you can go private but most people can't afford that luxury of having regular checkups. also, there is apparently a huge disparity in cost between practices and prices are (according to which?) never on display or more often than not, not even explained.

so you can't, say, go to the dentist and expect a flat fee of whatever for getting your teeth checked.

and i can't just walk into a dentist and get mine checked because thousands of people are on waiting lists. so i will have to make an advanced appointment with a private dentist who will probably rape me cash-wise, but hey, it's worth it.

i don't (or, at least, didn't) have any cavities/fillings/what not with my teeth but we'll see. my flatmate recently paid for a checkup and a list of everything he would need "corrected" and it came to about £160 (about $300) - i wouldn't mind a similar bill (it's something to work towards, ya know).

i'm sorta looking forward to it, hey!

[cosmo105]

oh. :o

[Nivvie]

When I moved back up here I had to go to a private dentist, and for a few little bits and pieces, she wanted to charge me £374 ($693). I only had the very necessary done, and she was crap too, didn't give me an injection for a root filling as she said it wouldn't hurt, and when I started to hurt, she got the nurse to tell me it was nearly over, so not to worry, but that was a lie. The nurse had to tell me as the dentist had very little english, not that I'm anti foriegn dentists, but communication is important.

So then I finally hear about a new NHS one opening up, manage to get the whole family on the books, and my new Italian dentist prices roughly the same job at £60 ($111). I could have kissed him.

I swear, dentures will be a blessing. Teeth suck.

[na§tee]

sorry cos, if that came across as a pedantic correction i didn't mean it! just explaining.

haha nivs, you superstar. did your italian dentist manage to cure your itchy teeth? :cool: and yeah, teeth are over-rated.
there's an american girl at work here and her teeth are WHITEWHITEWHITE! just so.. bling. they look totally out of this world and unachievable. bitch. ; )

i shoulda been a dentist. they make a potload. but don't they have to train for two decades or something ridonkulous? yipes.

[fraserallison]

i am going to the dentist tomorrow

[monkey]

i grind my teeth when i sleep but i never realized until the former bedmate told me.
he says i also talk mumbled spanish and hog all the blankets.

[tracky]

sorry cos, if that came across as a pedantic correction i didn't mean it! just explaining.

haha nivs, you superstar. did your italian dentist manage to cure your itchy teeth? :cool: and yeah, teeth are over-rated.
there's an american girl at work here and her teeth are WHITEWHITEWHITE! just so.. bling. they look totally out of this world and unachievable. bitch. ; )

i shoulda been a dentist. they make a potload. but don't they have to train for two decades or something ridonkulous? yipes.

god i love the way you talk

totally ridonkulous and a potload of bling. yipes!

in other news, i go to the dentist every 6 months these days. I kinda like going there actually :confused:

[venusvenus123]

god this thread is depressing :( i was going to ask you whether you know of anyone who could recommend a good dentist, but then i remembered what you said about scotland.

i have an nhs dentist and he's brilliant. so, errrr go me! i have been to bad dentists tho and once they fuck up any of your teeth, there's no going back. it's all a bit scary.

i think your teeth are worth investing in. i mean, if you neglect them, you'll either end up looking like worzel gummidge (http://www.teletronic.co.uk/worzelstrip.jpg) (omg that woman in the bottom right looks a bit like you!) or worse still, shane mcgowan (http://yambra.bitacoras.com/imgpost/shane%20macgowan.jpg). OR, you'll just have to pay gazillions later on in life to have it all corrected anyway.

which all reminds me i have to book an appt with mine. :o

[Nivvie]

i shoulda been a dentist. they make a potload. but don't they have to train for two decades or something ridonkulous? yipes.


Follow your dream!

They don't train for too long (about 5 years I think, glorious studentdom!), they're mainly failed med students who can't stay or couldn't get on the course. And they practice on dead pig heads.

[Pres Zount]

When you say 'night guard' are you talking about a similar thing that a hockey player would wear? Like a rubber thing that you put in a jar of boiling water and then it moulds around your teeth? Those things cost like $4. You should get one of those instead. It would work.

[Lyman Zerga]

i think i was 7 last time i visited a dentist lol


only two teeth are missing it's better half
so that makes it one fucked off tooth, i think thats a good result

[Helvete]

I don't grind my teeth, but I kinda have this weird habit where I click my jaw or something. I hadn't done it for days, but then I read this thread and thought about it and started doing it again. Fuck you.

[backwoods]

I used to do this all the time. then suddenly...it stopped

[TimDoolan]

I been wearing my teeth down grinding. Luckily I'm going to get some crowns so hopefully by this time next year I'll have some huge Matt Damon-esque chiclet teeth.

[QueenAdrock]

I started waking up with a clenched jaw and my teeth grinding each other, so I had my dentist make me a mouth guard. A nice $500 for free! Yay working for dentists.

Now if I can only find it. :(

[na§tee]

tracky, that is totally adorable. aw! thanks. :o

venus, ya got me! in a former life i was worzel gummidge's bitch. so scarred was i by the aforementioned denistry that it manifests itself in my night-time gurning! :eek: i never realised! hehe.

pres, yeah it's sort of like that. but it is exactly formed to your teeth. it's not just a barrier of plastic.. but that sounds sensible, i might give it a try (suffered the same shit last night). i wonder where one could, erm, purchase them?

helvete, i'm sorry.

[Dasuta]

I don't grind my teeth, but I kinda have this weird habit where I click my jaw or something. I hadn't done it for days, but then I read this thread and thought about it and started doing it again. Fuck you.

Hmm....I have the same thing happen to me at times. I like, dislocate my jaw.

That sucks, nastee. I have dental problems too, and I too, have trouble with teeth grinding. And I probably should go to the dentist to take care of my wisdom teeth. Blah.

[venusvenus123]

i just made an appt to see my dentist next week :o

come with me nastee!

[ShotgunBoy]

oh man, thats really crappy. anyway, my mum's name is Claire! and i'm from Ireland:D

btw, im goin to the dentist next week too for a filling :( and im gettin braces:( and:)