There can be many reasons as to why people grind their teeth. A high number of people develop the condition after having dental work and that the tiny shift in teeth positions causes an unconscious driver to grind in attempt to get the teeth back into their original positions prior to the dental work. It is also generally seen to be an unconscious mechanism to reduce stress and tension and most people that grind their teeth will state that grinding frequency increases during periods of heightened stress. Hypnosis and hypnotherapy have been shown to be effective to help remove and or change the unconscious and automatic mechanism that leads to teeth grinding. Below are some recent testimonials I’ve received from former teeth grinders and sufferers of bruxism as well as an abstract of a controlled study that looked at the successful treatment of bruxism with hypnosis.

“I started grinding and clenching my teeth when my wisdom teeth came in, and then was never able to give up the habit. For five years I put up with constant jaw and neck pain and headaches and the clenching became worse as the pain got worse. Stress or illness would set it off even more, I was diagnosed with TMJ and even managed to sprain my jaw last year. Since then, I was constantly being treated with osteopathy and massage to relieve the tension in my face and head but told there was no real cure, short of expensive overnight mouth plates or Botox administered to the jaw nerve. I’d heard hypnosis could help so I contacted Paul and was amazed to find after just one session, my clenching had all but disappeared. The second session really sealed the deal and now, I don’t have to live with daily jaw ache or migraines. I’m amazed. The relief from that chronic pain is incredible. Thank you, Paul!”
Melissa, Southbank

“I have had bruxism for around two years. It wasn’t the ruts in my teeth that finally got me to do anything about it though. It was my girlfriend. She was tired of experiencing the disturbing sound of my teeth grinding together at night, a sound I myself never consciously heard. The first night after I had been to see Paul I noticed the sound of my grinding for the first time and stopped. The next night, after sleeping the night at my girlfriend’s house I asked if I had ground my teeth during the night. She said I had begun to and then stopped. Two weeks later I went back to see Paul. During the second session I felt myself go into a deeper hypnotic state than the first. Since then my grinding has almost completely stopped. Paul creates a comfortable and secure imaginative construct in which a person is guided to their subconscious to address the issues that are there. It gave me the rare opportunity to shift my thinking at a deeper level than I could do alone. Immediately after each session I also had an amazingly positive elevation of my mood – an unexpected, but very welcome bonus! It was a pleasant and effective experience which I am grateful for. Thank you.”
Max, Preston

Suggestive hypnotherapy for nocturnal bruxism: a pilot study. Clarke JH, Reynolds PJ.

Division of Behavioral Sciences, Oregon Health Sciences University, School of Dentistry, Portland USA

Although one can find many case reports of hypnotherapy for bruxism, there is a paucity of scientific research on the subject. This study describes the use of suggestive hypnotherapy and looks at its effectiveness in treating bruxism. Eight subjects who reported bruxism with symptoms such as muscle pain and complaints of bruxing noise from sleep partners were accepted into the study. An objective baseline of the bruxing was established using a portable electromyogram (EMG) detector attached over the masseter muscle during sleep. Hypnotherapy was then employed. Both self-reports and posttreatment EMG recordings were used to evaluate the hypnotherapy. Long-term effects were evaluated by self-reports only. The bruxers showed a significant decrease in EMG activity; they also experienced less facial pain and their partners reported less bruxing noise immediately following treatment and after 4 to 36 months.

Link to the Study and Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2024617

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