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Tooth Meditation To Help Prevent Tooth Shattering
Due To Grinding and Clenching
Due To Grinding and Clenching
Questions often arise if there is a meditation to help with harmful habitual unconscious teeth grinding. My puppy dog, Scary Plodder, helped me answer this. Scary has chattering teeth. :( So I decided to explore chattering in animals before revealing answers for the human condition.
Google "teeth chattering" and you'll find that it is a kind of tremor or involuntary rhythmic muscle contraction and relaxation. in rats it's a sign of pleasure but they also chatter when scared. Maybe you can find glimpses of that rat trait portrayed somewhere between Willard (2003) and Ratatouille (2007) but it was my own chattering teeth I heard during scenes of terror and amusement.
Considering the wide range of scientific experimentation done with rats you might expect the poor lab rodent to develop paranoid schizophrenic disorders such as teeth grinding or bruxism from the fear or pleasure it vicariously experiences as it observes drug testing and surgical/chemical mutilation on its rat partners in the cage. But no, teeth chattering is considered a normal genetic feature of rats that probably evolved over millions of years to help control the length of their open-rooted incisor teeth which means they grow throughout life.
Chattering teeth has a long list of causes most notably thermogenic shivering or cold temperature related conditions. Note that a medical fever without any significant cold exposure can also cause shivering. Chattering can be related with anxiety, extreme fear, seizures, neurologic symptoms of chemical overdose or sensitivity and neurogenic tremors.
If you live with a cat you might notice that its jaws sound a rapid judder or quiver when if stares at a bird through the window. This is more an exaggerated frustrated and uncontrolled shaking of its jaws knowing the glass is a barrier to pouncing on a tasty bird with its vicious killing bite.
Scary Plodder, my cute thin-skinned pup, is a perfect example of canine teeth chattering when very nervous or excited and sometimes with fear. I'm constantly checking her teeth for breaks and cracks. If she doesn't outgrow the condition I'm concerned that with time her chattering will result in excessive wear and tear with permanent damage to her teeth. I rely on my veterinarian to give me advice on how to deal with Scary's chatter.
Human teeth clenching, grinding also known as bruxism is my field of study. Bite protector splints or night guards are the conventional treatment of choice by many dentists but I prefer to try a more holistic approach first. Sleeping with and/or daytime use of a plastic horseshoe like device that snaps over your teeth isn't well accepted by most of my patients. Believe me. From my personal experience wearing a night guard splint is more than a clumsy mouthful.
If you've been advised to wear a night guard for excessive bruxism then you might want to try the following meditative exercise first to help alleviate the condition. You should know there is a nutritional factor which won't be talked about here. In most cases I find it too difficult to isolate a vitamin deficiency and people end up spending hard earned money on supplements that won't work.
Since the facial and chewing muscles are mostly fast twitch type this meditation exercise takes fast twitch to another level. Fast twitch muscles are critical to stable physical balance. They keep you from slipping, tripping and falling head over heals. After about age 35 humans steadily lose functional fast twitch muscle reflex response. If nothing is done to reverse this pattern then by age 65 there is a high incidence of debilitating falls resulting in broken hips and wrists.
The biting and chewing mechanism is also perfectly balanced by nature with fast twitch muscle groups and in order to reduce the disharmony of abnormal teeth grinding, for whatever reason, it's necessary to restore fast twitch balance to the face, head, neck and jaw muscle physiology.
Here's a meditative exercise you can try if clenching and grinding is brought to your attention by your dentist. Read all about it in Yin Ain't Yang, The Ancient Way To Better Health.
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Disclaimer: The material (including without limitation, advice and recommendation) in this article is provided solely as a general educational and informational purpose. It is neither medical nor healthcare advice for any individual problem. It is also not intended to be used for medical treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified healthcare providers regarding your particular situation.
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