Though the Canadian Dental Association says the relationship between grinding your teeth and stress isn’t clear, there have been reports of an increase in COVID-19-induced nightmares and pandemic-related anxiety causing clenching and grinding. Needless to say, teeth have taken a beating over the last few months.” “ decay is accelerated by stress, and poor life conditions, such as not sleeping or eating well. But what we’re finding is that because of the quarantine period, a lot of people have been hesitant to go to the dentist,” Khaled, president of the Ontario Alliance of Dentists, told CTVNews.ca Tuesday. “Enamel is a rock-like substance and it’s super strong-it shouldn’t break. To his surprise, his colleagues reported a similar trend, one he believes is a compounding issue of stress, poor diet, and a lack of oral care. Kal Khaled closed his practice to all but emergency patients at the beginning of the lockdown and soon noticed an uptick in emergency patients coming in with cracked molars and damaged fillings leading to abscesses. Dentists have seen a surge in patients with cracked or damaged teeth over the course of the pandemic, a phenomenon some believe may be related to an increase in jaw clenching and grinding due to stress.

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