The relationship between teeth-grinding and neuroticism (Paracademia)

psychotherapy:

A study at Baltimore’s Laboratory of Personality and Cognition has recently been conducted into levels of anxiety and neuroticism in people who grind their teeth. Participants were examined by a dentist before being given personality tests, and results indicated that neuroticism-related traits were higher among those who reported teeth-grinding. These traits were also associated with other oral complaints such as jaw clicking, difficulty chewing food, and a dry mouth, but not with more general oral complaints such as unhealthy or bleeding gums or mouth ulcers.

My canine teeth aren’t even pointy anymore. Sigh. I need a dental night guard.

  1. affably reblogged this from psychotherapy and added:
    My canine teeth aren’t even pointy anymore. Sigh. I need...dental night guard.
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    my canines is flat at the end because I click my teeth when I’m nervous. Also, I just noticed
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    gounderground: psychotherapy:
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    yeah, could have told you that one.
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    e mò questa chi è? ..io ho sempre saputo ciò : click. / cleck. (si, l’e. c’ha pure questa.)
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    Wait, they just figured this out?
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    I am reblogging this for my cousin Kim Cuevas. Remember the days you used to do this? :D
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    serious teeth-grinder. It’s completely unconscious....I cannot stop. No matter what. In...