{"id":1828,"date":"2020-10-22T18:30:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T17:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1828"},"modified":"2024-04-23T08:49:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T07:49:15","slug":"bruxism-are-you-wearing-away-your-teeth-while-you-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/bruxism-are-you-wearing-away-your-teeth-while-you-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruxism &#8211; Are You Wearing  Away Your Teeth While You Sleep?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>October 26th-30th is Bruxism Awareness Week? &#8211; you&#8217;ve probably never heard of it. Bruxism is wearing of the teeth as a result of clenching and grinding and is believed to affect up to 80% of the population at some time in their life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/BSTV61-photo.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1829\" width=\"339\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/BSTV61-photo.png 577w, https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/BSTV61-photo-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/BSTV61-photo-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 339px) 100vw, 339px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It is well known that stress and anxiety is one of the key causes of bruxism and in a year that has had a massive impact on people&#8217;s health and well being, at Brightside Dental we are seeing more and more people with damage to their teeth due to bruxism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brightside&#8217;s Principal Dentist Ketan discusses bruxism and gives advice on what can be done to help with it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tVG5q04q1s8&amp;feature=youtu.be\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"456\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/BSTV61-thumbnail.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/BSTV61-thumbnail.png 456w, https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/BSTV61-thumbnail-300x164.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you would like further advice on treatment options, please call us on 020 88884401.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 26th-30th is Bruxism Awareness Week? &#8211; you&#8217;ve probably never heard of it. Bruxism is wearing of the teeth as a result of clenching and grinding and is believed to affect up to 80% of the population at some time in their life. It is well known that stress and anxiety is one of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/bruxism-are-you-wearing-away-your-teeth-while-you-sleep\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bruxism &#8211; Are You Wearing  Away Your Teeth While You Sleep?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1829,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}