Scared to sleep
Hi,
Ive had bruxism since I was 14 (now 32) and have an extremely loud click on my left side of my jaw, like to the point when you watch it my whole jaw shifts when I open and shut.
Ita never caused me much real painful problems apart from most of my teeth are flat from clenching.
However starting in 2024 I had some fillings done on 4 of my molars. Straight away this led to me cracking the 2nd molar one night when asleep. I've now had this tooth removed due to pain 2 weeks ago and my bite is all sorts of messed up. My teeth no longer have a naturally resting fit. This has meant Im waking up with specific teeth being very sore. I've also started to get the same pain that I had from the cracked tooth on a different molar.
I'm waiting to have another nightgaurd fitted as my last one doesn't fit the shape of my mouth anymore, but they've got to wait a few weeks for my extraction site to heal.
I'm basically not sleeping properly as I'm super aware and anxious about damaging my other teeth now that my bite is moving about which is obviously making my clenching worse which is fucking up my teeth even more.
What do I do :(
Ive tried the boil your own mouth guards just ti try but it's painful to wear due to aforementioned pain in molar. I'm scared I'm going to have to have another molar removed which will mean I've had 4 molars removed on the bottom and none on the top which will just absolutely mess up my bite even more.
I'm just so lost on what to do.