Please help... Starting to have a gap on my front teeth?!


Question: I am slightly overbite and have lived with it. I'm in my early 30's and I'm ok with my smile. But lately, I've been noticing that I'm starting to have a gap in my two front teeth! My husband said that it's probably because I grind my teeth when I'm asleep. I know I do, but is it a possibility that this time I'm grinding my incisors rather than my molars hence the gap on my front teeth? I would wake up and have blood on my front teeth. I already have my dental appointment in a few weeks but I just need other people's opinions. I know invisalign is expensive and most insurances doesn't cover it. Anyone tried teeth bands? They might work for me since my 2 front teeth never had a gap before anyways. Thanks for your answers!


Answers: I am slightly overbite and have lived with it. I'm in my early 30's and I'm ok with my smile. But lately, I've been noticing that I'm starting to have a gap in my two front teeth! My husband said that it's probably because I grind my teeth when I'm asleep. I know I do, but is it a possibility that this time I'm grinding my incisors rather than my molars hence the gap on my front teeth? I would wake up and have blood on my front teeth. I already have my dental appointment in a few weeks but I just need other people's opinions. I know invisalign is expensive and most insurances doesn't cover it. Anyone tried teeth bands? They might work for me since my 2 front teeth never had a gap before anyways. Thanks for your answers!

You should try a guard for your teeth.
You can get them from a dentist.
As for the gap, try wearing a retainer.
I am getting braces and my dentist says to prevent a gap in my teeth I must wear a retainer after my braces are removed.
Hopefully the gap will go away.
You can also get it surgically fixed but I am guessing it is extremely expensive.
Good luck.

well since you're over 21, the bands would not be very successful. You can try them before the invisilign just to make sure if they will work(on average, it takes a couple months or two).

OK..To begin with, tooth grinding is most always a sign that the person is dealing with issues in their life that creates stress and the stress is expressed by tooth grinding. Their are five areas that create stress, Money, Marriage, Health, Sex and Employment. Often times one must seek professional counseling to deal with what ever area is creating emotional stress. It seldom ever goes away on it's on. Now, if your bite (jaws) are over closed do to a old worn denture or partial denture allowing your front teeth to apply to much pressure to the back of your upper teeth when the jaws close, you need to get that appliance replaced. When lower front teeth continually bump the back of upper front teeth the upper teeth are slowly but surely pushed forward and apart. This can eventually happen to all your front upper teeth if the issue isn't corrected and dealt with. That kind of movement destroys gum bone and at some point the teeth will get so loose that extractions are your only option. Deal with it now, your far to young to let this happen to you.





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