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05/29/2026

04/15/2026

Don’t ignore dental pain. It’s your body telling you something needs attention. Call today and get relief fast.

12/25/2022

Merry Christmas to all of our amazing patients and team!

12/22/2022

Christmas dinner!!

12/16/2022

We love having family work together! Please welcome Danny as our new sterilization tech! Deisy, his sister, is one of our wonderful hygienists that is stepping in today to help us out!

11/23/2022

Do you wake up feeling tired?

Some signs of poor sleep include:

• Restless, active sleep
• Nightmares
• Cold hands and feet
• Digestive issues
• Anxiety and depression

In the dental chair, one of the main symptoms of sleep issues includes teeth grinding. In both adults and children experience it:

If you’re grinding your teeth at night, don’t ignore the signs.

Firstly, it’s a sign of poor unrestful sleep.

If you’re damaging your teeth, you are doing real harm to your body.

Tooth enamel is made of hydroxyapatite, one of the strongest biological materials on the planet.

When you wear it down

The nanostructured calcium apatite plays an important role in the construction of calcified tissues. It has ability to attach biological molecules such as proteins, which can be used as functional materials which can regenerate.

When you wear the surface down, it can’t do so.

Teeth grinding often represents a closing airway during sleep.

When the airway closes, due to many factors, the brain signals the jaw to move in order to tense the muscles to hold the throat open to breathe.

Breathing is paramount during sleep, and your brain is obsessed with monitoring the airway. Throughout the nose and throat are ‘pressure’ sensors that detect how much resistance the air needs to push through to reach the lungs.

Practical ways to decrease teeth grinding.

1) Tongue posture: Here you need to train the tongue to seal to the roof of the mouth during sleep. A difficult skill to learn, but sealing the tongue up, including the back of the tongue to the soft palate is key
2) A tongue that seals to the roof of the mouth helps open the airway, but also turns off the large chewing muscles such as the masseter that runs down the cheek.
3) This is correct ‘oral posture’, Tongue sealed to the roof of the mouth, teeth slightly apart. This helps turn the masseter off, which stops teeth grinding!

Have you struggled with teeth grinding?