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Perfect Storm

September 21, 2023

MDA dentists Dr. Vincent Benivegna, Dr. Daniel Edwards, and Dr. Mehul Patel share that they’re treating more and more stress-related oral health conditions. A 2021 American Dental Association survey f


Video Transcript


There's oral health problems, there's mental health problems, there's systemic health problems and it's just all, it's like, it's like a perfect storm right now. We've seen a lot of patients coming in with sore jaw muscles or jaw joints, uh cracked teeth, everybody's talking about cracked teeth. I mean, and I I take out a ton of cracked teeth, you know, single cracked teeth, people are just grinding the heck out of their teeth, you know, because this their stress levels ticked up huge. I think general dentist still say the same thing. They're seeing so many cracked teeth, what's causing it. There are a lot of patients who are cracking their teeth grinding. I'm seeing more jaw pain, headaches, just bruxism, all this from anxiety. Everybody tries to manage their level of stress and some things they have in their control and other things they do not have control over. So, and I think that one thing as dentists is that we reassure patients that uh this is fairly normal. We have seen this over and over day after day and uh it's something that we can try to help them manage and get through um through some of these rough times.



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