{"id":57,"date":"2010-10-29T14:21:45","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T14:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lehighvalleydentalhealth.com\/?p=57"},"modified":"2026-06-26T14:47:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T14:47:31","slug":"teeth-grinding-clenching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleydentalhealth.com\/blog\/teeth-grinding-clenching\/","title":{"rendered":"Teeth Grinding & Clenching"},"content":{"rendered":"Grinding or Clenching is a common dental issue.\u00a0 Some cases maybe more serious than others.\u00a0 If somesone has wear on their teeth chances are they are grinding or clenching.\u00a0 Most of these people grind or clench at night while sleeping, which may lead to sore muscles and jaw pain in the morning.\u00a0 Others may grind or clench during the day, often as a result of stress.\u00a0 More serious complications of grinding and clenching are root fractures or\u00a0 breaking or weakening of the emamel or porcelain veneers.\u00a0 Over a lifetime a person mormally loses less than 1mm of emamel; but someone who grinds can wear away 1mm of emamel in a year.\u00a0 To prevent furthur damage to your teeth, we recommend a nightguard.\u00a0A nightguard is a hard piece of acrylic\u00a0 which goes over the teeth while grinding or clenching at night.\u00a0 These need to be made by a dentist to not only fit the teeth,but to fit the bite, otherwise additonal complications can occur.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grinding or Clenching is a common dental issue.\u00a0 Some cases maybe more serious than others.\u00a0 If somesone has wear on their teeth chances are they are grinding or clenching.\u00a0 Most of these people grind or clench at night while sleeping, which may lead to sore muscles and jaw pain in the morning.\u00a0 Others may grind or clench during the day, often as a result of stress.\u00a0 More serious complications of grinding and clenching are root fractures or\u00a0 breaking or weakening of the emamel or porcelain veneers.\u00a0 Over a lifetime a person mormally loses less than 1mm of emamel; but someone who grinds can wear away 1mm of emamel in a year.\u00a0 To prevent furthur damage […] (Read More)<\/a>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[37,34,36,35,33],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-broken-porcelain-veneers","tag-bruxism","tag-fracture","tag-grinding-clenching","tag-nightguard"],"yoast_head":"\nTeeth Grinding & Clenching - S. 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