Causes of teeth grinding include excessive food, mental factors, and neurological factors.
1. Excessive food: Eating too much before bedtime may lead to digestive disorders and stimulate the brain cells responsible for digestion. Brain cells are always in an active state, and this state triggers the chewing state through reflex, which leads to teeth grinding.
2. Mental factors: When the patient is overly nervous, anxious or in a fearful environment for a long period of time, it will cause teeth grinding, which mainly occurs at night.
3. Neurological factors: teeth grinding may also be related to central nervous system dysfunction, such as epilepsy, schizophrenia, Parkinson’s disease, etc., during the seizure, it is also easy to appear teeth clenching.
If the phenomenon of teeth grinding, the patient should go to the regular hospital in time for relevant examinations to identify the cause of the disease and then actively treat.