I even wear a tiny night guard each night to help prevent this. I know
it sounds nerdy, but it's true.
I got the night guard a little over two years ago and I completely
wore a groove in it from where my teeth scrape back and forth each
night. Because of this, the grinder (which is what I call my night
guard) became totally ineffective. I know this because I've been
waking up in the morning with awful tension headaches from where I've
been clasping my jaw together like a sprung bear trap.
To stop this from happening, my dentist is kindly (thanks to a thing
called money) rebuilding it for me. Here I am testing it out. It seems
to work fine, but all the clenching to make it fit correctly and lying
upside down in the dentist chair (plus the crazy headache I was
already nursing) really did me in. On my way back to work, there was a
split second where I thought I was going to throw up all over
Montgomery street. I didn't, but it was a close call.barf
