Uneven Bite

Diagnosing An Uneven Bite After A Cavity Filling
Close your teeth and squeeze when checking for a correct bite after a filling. This shouldn’t cause any pain or discomfort. You should also feel all of your teeth coming together at once. Try grinding your teeth together in various directions. You shouldn’t feel any discomfort here either.

Your dentist performs this test in the office after filling a cavity, but the composites used to create the filling can sometimes shift and become slightly misplaced. When this occurs, you can call your dentist and arrange a visit with a Sunday dentist if necessary.

Causes Of Uneven Bites
Various reasons for teeth bite adjustment exist. And they can happen at any age. You have a family dentist who can treat everyone from the youngest to the oldest. No one has to live with an uneven bite when you have dentists treat the problem using the newest teeth adjustment methods.

Some of the causes of an uneven bite or uneven jaw include:
- Loss of teeth in childhood because of cavities
- Losing teeth as an adult without quickly replacing them
- Incorrectly finished orthodontic work
- Uneven crowns
- Children who sucked their thumbs

An Uneven Bite Can Lead To Problems
Besides affecting how you look, a misaligned or uneven jaw causes other issues. With a correct bite, your teeth align with the midline of your face and give you an even appearance, promoting healthy eating and oral care.

After years of training and experience, our best dentist can spot this misalignment easily. You also should report other problems that you may or may not even realize are caused by the uneven bite, also called uneven jaw, including:

- Frequent headaches. When your teeth and jaw don’t work together correctly, your jaw muscles grow strained, causing chronic headaches over time.

- Teeth Grinding. When you notice yourself grinding or clenching your teeth, it’s often because your teeth strive for symmetry.

- Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ) Dysfunction. Once again, your jaw muscles grow tired from attempting to compensate for your uneven bite. TMJ dysfunction is discomfort in your jaw or clicking in your ear while chewing. This occurs because of the strain an uneven bite places on your jaw while you chew, yawn, and talk.

- If you have a severe problem with your bite, it may cause you to snore. The reason is that your overbite pinches off your airway, causing breathing problems.

- Damaged dental work, such as crowns and caps, grow loose and fails over time. This is due to the impact that occurs when improperly aligned tooth surfaces clash together as you chew. Left untreated, decay creeps in, causing cavities, tiny cracks, fissures, and even tooth loss.

Pressure from an uneven bite doesn’t only cause your dental work to fail; it also harms healthy teeth. This pressure creates worn spots on the surface of your teeth. Enamel then starts quickly wearing away, causing overly sensitive teeth and making the tooth even more prone to decay.

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