In dental chairs across the UK, a quiet epidemic is revealing itself in worn enamel and aching jaws — bruxism, the nocturnal grinding of teeth, is rising sharply among young people, and the cause is written not in biology alone but in the accumulated stress of modern life. The jaw, wired to the nervous system through ancient cranial pathways, becomes a pressure valve when the mind cannot rest, translating anxiety into force. What dentists are learning, slowly, is that a mouthguard can protect a tooth but cannot heal a life — and that the mouth, in its suffering, is often the last to speak of w
Teeth Grinding on the Rise Among Young People, Dentists Warn
Severe bruxism causes chronic jaw and facial pain, sleep disruption, and can lead to complex dental damage requiring expensive treatment.