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Originally Posted by orlok
I've recently found myself grinding my teeth without being aware of doing it. Never done that before, so I'm confused as to why I have suddenly started.
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I developed full blown TMJ by the time I was a sophmore in high school, as in my jaw would lock and require physical manipulation to unlock. The weird thing is that I got there without major teeth grinding because my teeth showed no sign of being ground.
Headaches and jaw pain were normal for me. It sucked. Talk to your dentist about getting an appliance that helps keep you from grinding. It will protect your teeth, limit the headaches, and help retrain you to not grind your teeth.
It took me five years with special retainers to realign my jaws to "fix my TMJ" the retainers prevented me from doing what ever it was I was doing that was causing the issue.
We know mine was stressed related because once I started using the retainers I ended up with mouth ulcers. I think my 6 months in Italy for college was really the cure. I came back and didn't have any more mouth ulcers or jaw issues.
So retainer and go to Italy