Effect of Bite on Your Teeth

The patient’s bite is one of the most commonly overlooked evaluations for many great dental professionals. The most common problems arises in dentistry that are associated with bite are broken tooth, a broken denture base and bruxsim or clenching and grinding of the teeth, abfraction and periodontal bone loss. A comprehensive evaluation of your bite as well as your muscles of mastication and their relationship with your bite is the foremost requirement for a true dental professional examination.

Bite discrepancies can actually affect your all body parts and the symptoms you can noticed are chronic headaches, sleep apnea, shoulder pain, neck pain, tingling in the fingers and arms and snoring etc. As years passes we all lose the surfaces of our teeth due to the normal wearing process or habitual grinding. Some people lose their teeth due to gum disease, trauma, a failed root canal or fracture. So it is really important to fully understand just how fundamentally VDO (vertical dimension of occlusion) will affect your life, in case you don’t take care of it. Most of the events that affect you and lead to VDO will also lead to the overall loss of the facial height that result in premature aging and sagging of the facial muscles.

In addition some people are suffering from collapsed bite. It is the condition when teeth are missing and the muscles must work harder in order to bring the surfaces of your teeth together that will lead to overworking and tension of the muscles, leading to the chronic headache and tension in the muscles supporting your head. Teeth grinding or clenching are common symptoms of collapsed bite. Here are symptoms that should give you as a patient an indication that there may be something going on with your bite:

• Systematic Indications are gradual loss of hearing in one or both ears, sleep apnea, numbness in fingers or arms, chronic headaches, ore jaw muscles after eating, blurred vision in one eye or both and higher sugar level.

• Dental symptoms include residing gums in the presence of good oral hygiene habit, development of boney tori, jagged teeth edges, repeated failed fillings and dental materials and deep bite.

• Facial and skeletal changes include dropping of corners of the lips, premature aging, a forward head and unilateral or bilateral bulging and enlarge masseter, the big muscle over the hinge of your jawbone.

Above facial symptoms are normal and may occur simultaneously over the years, but when it combines with dental symptoms and systematic indications, the person is in need of immediate attention.

In the last few decades extraordinary advances have been made in understanding the extreme importance of studying the bite thoroughly during the first examination.