Many people have experienced eating bite tongue thing, suddenly bite so a little is really “refreshing”. When I was a child, my mother always said that eating bite tongue because of the craving for meat, but now that we have grown up, this explanation can no longer fool us. So, what is the reason for biting your tongue at dinner?
A. Bite the tongue is not because of craving meat?
Some people bite their tongues because while talking and eating, eating fast and talking fast, talking and talking and “puffing” a mouthful. In this case, biting your tongue is not a problem, it’s just that you have given your tongue too much of a task, and it will always be unable to handle it. You just need to use the two functions of the mouth separately.
Secondly, is the teeth grow badly?
But more people are because the teeth do not bite well. First, let’s study our dental bed, if you bite your teeth tightly, generally people are upper teeth wrapped in the lower teeth outside, this is because our upper dental arch is a larger horseshoe, the lower dental arch is a smaller horseshoe, our tongue is protected by the lower dental arch that “small horseshoe”. Usually when eating, the upper teeth bite on the outside of the lower teeth, the tongue is safer. However, some people are unlucky, the upper arch of the teeth is small, when biting down closer to the tongue, it is easier to bite.
In this way, the friends of the “bungee” are not very miserable? Their upper arch is not just a little smaller, but smaller than the lower arch, so they have to bite every day? In fact, there is no, “geodesic” children are mostly “incisors” near the arch is small, such people do not necessarily love to bite the tongue; but some people are the upper teeth inside the arch is small, that is, the “big teeth “grow too close to the inside, which is easy to bite, and also very characteristic, this kind of people bite to the root of the tongue than the greater chance. Hurry to bite the teeth tightly, take the tongue lick a circle, see how their bite. However, even if it does not pass the test, doctors still have a solution for this kind of teeth, with a period of braces, adjust the alignment of the teeth, your tongue can get out of the fate of being mutilated.
In addition to eating and biting the tongue, some people also bite it at night when they sleep. This is nothing unusual, there are people who sleep and talk in their sleep. When eating during the day, the teeth are conscious movement, the tongue is also conscious with, at night when sleeping, some people teeth unconscious movement, and the tongue at this time if you do not know to avoid, will be teeth bite a square. People who have night molar disease will have their teeth edges sharpened, so they are more likely to bite their tongue and bite harder.
Third, or the tongue does not look right?
The teeth bite the tongue, in addition to the teeth, of course, there may also be tongue reasons. There is a saying “fat bite tongue thin bite cheeks”, although I do not know if it is true that thin people love to bite cheeks, but fat people love to bite the tongue is a little bit reasonable, because if the tongue is fat, it is easier to be bitten.
Some people are born with larger tongues, open their mouths and extend their tongues to the outside of their teeth. Some people have been missing a certain tooth for a long time, and the tongue part next to the tooth grows slowly, just like a wall around a grass field, and suddenly one day there is a gap in the wall, and over time, the grass grows along the gap to the outside of the wall. Although the tongue will not really deformed so much, but as long as a little bit bigger, the chances of being bitten is a little bit bigger.
Some people love to bite their cheeks, and lack of teeth also have some relationship, since the tongue can grow outward, the cheeks can naturally grow inward, over time, the cheeks of the missing teeth parts will also come out a little bit more, so it is not moving by the teeth “repair repair”.
Repeated bites may increase the risk of tongue cancer
Usually, after biting the tongue or cheek, it will heal in two or three days. At this time, you need to pay attention to oral hygiene, and to prevent infection, you can also use saline or mouthwash to rinse your mouth. If the wound is slow to heal, you can also use some local spray or patch to reduce inflammation and pain to promote wound healing. But if always repeatedly bitten, repeatedly wounded, this is not a good phenomenon. It can lead to ulcers or even increase the risk of tongue cancer.
It is usually believed that long-term irritation and damage to the tongue mucosa from sharp tooth tips and bad teeth on the edge of the tongue, such as stumpy crowns and roots, are important factors in the development of tongue cancer. Occasional biting of the tongue by young people does not lead to tongue cancer, but ulcers caused by repeated biting on a continuous basis are adding to the occurrence of tongue cancer. Meanwhile, the early signs of tongue cancer may be conveyed in the form of “tongue biting”. Therefore, we remind tongue biters that if you have oral or tongue injuries that do not heal for two weeks, or if the wounds show irregular white spots or orange peel-like protrusions, it is best to go to the hospital for examination in time.
V. How to prevent tongue cancer?
①First of all, of course, pay attention to oral hygiene, brush your teeth in the morning and evening, rinse your mouth after meals; do oral examination once or twice a year, and treat dental and periodontal diseases promptly if found;
②If there is tooth decay, fill it as soon as possible; if there is a crown or root that can be repaired, deal with it in time; if there is a crown or root that is difficult to be cured or used, even if there is no inflammation or pain, pull it out in time and set the tooth on time;
③ Long-term night grinding or older people, the teeth are easy to be worn very sharp, this should be timely grinding change, let them “blunt” a little;
④ In addition is to stop smoking and limit alcohol, strengthen exercise, improve nutrition and so on.
Six, love to bite the tongue may also be “neuropathy”
These are considered from the oral aspect, in addition, there may also be neurological reasons. There is a saying that if the stress is too much, or physical fatigue, rest is not enough, the nervous system may not be able to properly control the muscles for chewing activities, so when eating, it is easy to bite the tongue.
If the elderly love to bite their tongues, it is more important to be alert. There is a disease called lacunar cerebral infarction, which has mild symptoms such as love of biting the tongue and poor fine motor skills among its preliminary symptoms, which can be easily overlooked. This disease causes infarction of local microvessels in the brain and ischemia and necrosis of brain tissue, which causes the tongue to lose its ability to move flexibly. Lacunar cerebral infarction is a high incidence and more specific type of cerebral infarction that often occurs in elderly people with hypertension, hyperlipidemia and diabetes. If you find that an elderly person has been biting his or her tongue a lot recently, or if it is accompanied by dizziness, headache, unsteadiness in walking, slurred speech, etc., you should seek medical attention as soon as possible.
Warm tips: concentrate on eating when eating, chew slowly, talk less, and pay more attention once there is a wound in the mouth, because the bite is uneven and more likely to bite again.