Some of your patients may be putting their oral health at risk without realising the destruction they’re causing. When someone presents with parafunctional habits, the approach to treatment may need to change – certainly when providing dental implants.
Patients may not recognise that bruxism, or teeth grinding, is what is causing migraines, neck and jaw aches, and poor sleep. It’s important to open their eyes to the damage it deals to their oral health and the risks that it poses to an implant. After all, you’d be frustrated if something you did in your sleep so heavily impacted the time and money invested into over a year of treatment time.
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