Bruxism is the term used in medicine for the grinding or clenching of teeth. Bruxism often occurs at nighttime and it may lead to pain of facial muscles, pain of the jaw joints and even damage to teeth (wearing down). A splint is often used as part of treatment in bruxism. Surgery may sometimes be required if the device-assisted therapies do not work.
Bruxism may be either the grinding or the clenching of teeth. This often occurs at night and leads to noise, painful muscles around the jaw and damage to teeth. It often occurs without the affected person being aware.
The cause of bruxism is unknown. Risk factors are sleeping disorders, chronic stress or fear, alcohol, caffeine and nicotine intake. It mainly occurs when a person is sleeping. The grinding and clenching of teeth may wear down the surface of the teeth and may also cause facial muscle pain. Sometimes it causes temporomandibular joint problems (TMJ). People with bruxism may experience sensitive of teeth, tenderness of facial muscles, insomnia and pain around the jaws.
Treatment for bruxism is mainly targeted to relieve pain, to reduce the negative effects of clenching and to prevent further damage to teeth. It is often recommended to use a splint to avoid further damage. A splint may also assist to improve TMJ symptoms. Physiotherapy (massaging the jaw muscles) or psychotherapy may also be helpful. If all assistive devices do not work, a doctor may suggest surgery to reduce jaw muscle tonus.
Several years of work in academia, medical practice and finally commercialization make it possible to provide an end-to-end process to help users to “find the appropriate medical help based on their present symptoms”. Below you will find a short explanation, showing you which part of the platform will help you best in finding the appropriate medical support.
Proceed as follows to enter your current symptoms.
Click on the appropriate body part on the picture. Select one/multiple symptoms corresponding to your complaint.
You can also add symptoms by typing your medical complaint in the search box and selecting the best matching suggestion.
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Once you have selected all applicable symptoms, click the “analyze disease pattern”-button.
Accordingly, you will get a list of possible diseases and matching doctor categories who can further help you.
You can inform yourself about the possible diseases by reading the related information. But you can also return to the previous step and add more symptoms or delete already added ones to further narrow down your disease pattern.
Click on the desired doctor category to find a doctor who can help you.
If you are logged in with your profile, you will be displayed the appropriate doctors in your area. Otherwise you can enter an address in the “address” field and you will be displayed a doctor’s list around that specified address.
You will receive further information about the displayed doctors when you press on “details”.
Online bookable doctors in your area will be indicated with the notation “Book appointment” or “Book externally”, additionally they will be displayed on top of the list for your convenience.
Click on “Book appointment” to start the online appointment booking process with the desired doctor.
Please select an available appointment. “Green“ appointments are booked directly. “Red“ appointments need to be confirmed by the doctor.
Enter your general personal and health information.
Enter your present medical symptoms.
Enter your mobile phone number to identify yourself and you can finalize the appointment booking.
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