Stress? What Stress?
Posted
Wednesday, February 23, 2005 3:32 PM
I thought I had been doing a wonderful job lately at keeping stress down to a minimum in my life. Well, I thought so until I made a trip to the dentist for what I thought was a wisdom tooth problem.
I had been having pain in my jaw and just assumed that because I still had all my wisdom teeth that this was the problem. Nope. My dentist explained to me that I was grinding my teeth and clenching my jaw at night while sleeping. What would cause this? Stress normally she said. I've been clenching and grinding so much that I now have a fracture in one of my teeth.
She said I could try and remove the stress from my life (or at least lower it) or get fitted to wear a bite plate at night. I thought hmmmm, new mom, new baby, just back from maternity leave where everything was left for me when I got back..........
I'll take the bite plate please.
