Infants’ teeth clenching and snapping are associated with physiologic factors such as mood swings and imitation of others, and may also be associated with epilepsy and tic disorders.
1. Physiological factors: When infants have big mood swings, imitate others, or have a hard bowel movement, infants may exhibit teeth clenching and snapping.
2. Epilepsy: During a seizure, the infant’s body parts may jerk involuntarily, have abnormal sensations in the limbs, have generalized flushing, excessive sweating, and impaired consciousness, which may be manifested by clenching and gnashing of teeth.
3. Tourette’s syndrome: the cause of tic disorders is not yet clear, and may be related to genetic factors, neurobiochemistry, environmental factors and so on. The main symptoms of the disease are motor tics, vocal tics, and motor tics manifested by blinking, shrugging nose, crooked mouth, jumping, etc., vocal tics manifested by roaring, imitation speech, obscene language, etc., can also be manifested as teeth gnashing and vicious.
Infant teeth clenching and cutting hard may also have other reasons, it is recommended to go to the hospital in a timely manner, improve the examination to clarify the cause of the disease, under the guidance of the doctor to give targeted treatment or treatment.