5 Ways By Which Stress Can Affect Your Oral Health

1.              5 Ways By Which Stress Can Affect Your Oral Health The most common feature that defines today’s fast-paced life is stress. Life seems to be incomplete without stress and so it is mandatory if you want to give your best. Enduring stress to a certain extent is bearable but when it becomes extreme, it can have a toll on your health, including your oral health. There is no doubt about the fact that your body immediately prepares to either to flee or fight a stressful situation. Some of the ways by which your body handles such a situation are: rising of the blood pressure, faster beating of the heart, rapid breathing, tightening of the muscles and so on. Such physical changes, in turn, increases your strength and stamina to encounter the situation. In short, just like stress affects your physical health, your oral health is also affected to such an extent that you have to visit a denture clinic in Edmonton. What are the concerns caused due to stress on your oral health? 1. Mouth sores- Do you know? If you are undergoing extreme emotional stress, you are at risk of suffering mouth sores. Sores are bruises inside your mouth that makes eating and talking difficult. They look like blisters and sometimes ejects clear fluid also. Some sores heal on their own(Canker sores) but there are some sores that require antibiotics to heal. 2. Grinding of the teeth- Grinding teeth is a common symptom that indicates you are worried and tensed. This is an involuntary habit when it occurs while you are asleep and it is pretty harmful for your poor teeth! If it continues for long, it will definitely cause tooth damage and even facial pain. The best way solution for this is getting night guards that can do away with this habit effectively. 3. Poor oral hygiene leads to poorer results- When you are extremely stressed out, you don’t feel like spending time on maintaining good oral hygiene; for example:

2. you don’t want to brush your teeth twice a day or floss regularly. Such an oral health routine if continued for long, will be clearly visible on your teeth. It may result in untimely tooth decay and gum problems for which you may have to take help of dental relines, implants and denture services. 4. Poor nutrition- Stress can also compel you to alter your eating habits for the worse; when you don’t have any appetite, you tend to cut out on most of the vital nutrients like vitamin, minerals, protein and so on. Remember! Proper diet and nutrition is necessary if you want to have a set of glowing white teeth. For example: vitamin D is important for three reasons: to have a healthy immune system, manufacturing of new bone tissue and also to prevent any kind of gum disease. Vitamin K is also vital and its deficiency can cause bleeding gums while lack of vitamin C causes ‘scurvy’ which can make you anemic and weak. Again poor nutrition can lead to loss of teeth and you may have to look for reliable dental implant services. 5. Dry mouth- Dry mouth is yet another common symptom of stress and anxiety. People have dry mouth whenever they are tensed and anxious about a certain situation. Dry mouth results from lack of production of saliva even though salivary glands are functioning normally. Sometimes, this condition is also a side-effect for certain medicine categories like antihistamines, antidepressants and so on. Conclusion- Although stress may seem to be a pretty normal affair externally, in reality, it affects your all-round health including your mouth. So say NO to stress- related oral complications and start practicing healthy oral habits from today. Source: http://www.shoredentureclinic.com/5-ways-by-which-stress-can-affect- your-oral-health/    Shore Denture Clinic 780.428.0786                            lkassian@shaw.ca     www.shoredentureclinic.com