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<\/a>Day-to-day life is stressful, there\u2019s no doubt about that. Demands at work, hectic commutes, and the rapid flow of life itself can all be enough to leave you feeling tense.\u00a0 That spells bad news for your health, but also for your smile.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not uncommon to react to stress by clenching your teeth. In fact, it\u2019s a pretty natural response. But no matter how natural it might be, it\u2019s not healthy. Over time, clenching and grinding can harm your teeth and your jaw, causing painful symptoms and ruining your oral health.<\/p>\n
So it might seem that the simplest way to treat this problem\u2014which is called bruxism<\/a>\u2014is to just stop clenching and grinding your teeth. But unfortunately, it\u2019s not that simple.<\/p>\n Many patients who struggle with bruxism<\/strong> don\u2019t even know they\u2019re struggling, because they grind and clench their teeth while they\u2019re sleeping. That makes it difficult to just stop.<\/p>\n But using a comfortable, custom-made nightguard<\/strong>, it\u2019s possible for Dr. Carmen<\/a> to provide his Norman<\/strong>-area patients with the relief they\u2019ve been looking for.<\/p>\n Nightguards <\/strong>work by preventing the clenching and grinding that can so easily damage your teeth and jaw muscles. To experience relief, all you have to do is slip it on before you go to bed. Then, you can rest comfortably through the night and wake up feeling better than you have in a long time.<\/p>\n Learn More Today<\/strong><\/p>\n Are you ready to learn more about how you can stop bruxism<\/strong> with a nightguard<\/strong>? Call<\/a> Dr. Carmen\u2019s<\/strong> Norman dental office<\/a> today to schedule an appointment with us. Our team happily serves patients from The University of Oklahoma, Norman, Moore, Central Oklahoma, and beyond<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Day-to-day life is stressful, there\u2019s no doubt about that. Demands at work, hectic commutes, and the rapid flow of life itself can all be enough to leave you feeling tense.\u00a0 That spells bad news for your health, but also for your smile. It\u2019s not uncommon to react to stress by clenching your teeth. In fact, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[10,72,245,70,107,82,95,67],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-dentistry","tag-bruxism-2","tag-central-oklahoma","tag-dr-bobby-carmen","tag-moore","tag-nightguard","tag-norman","tag-the-university-of-oklahoma","tag-tmj-therapy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drbobbycarmen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drbobbycarmen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drbobbycarmen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drbobbycarmen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drbobbycarmen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.drbobbycarmen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232,"href":"https:\/\/www.drbobbycarmen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drbobbycarmen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drbobbycarmen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drbobbycarmen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}