My dentist said I grind my teeth 45 minutes a night and that's how I found my weirdest wind down

Willow Harris · 2026-09-10T12:30:05.472641+00:00

I went in for a cleaning 3 weeks ago and she pulled up the scan and told me I clench and grind for about 45 minutes every night while I sleep. I always thought my jaw hurt from work stress but turns out I'm literally chewing on my own teeth after the day ends. So now before bed I sit on the kitchen floor with a hot washcloth on my jaw and just breathe for 10 minutes, sounds silly but my face stopped aching by week two. Does anyone else have a wind down thing that came from a doctor basically telling them they were holding onto stress?

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