Remedies for One-Sided Chewing

I wonder if you have ever observed yourself and the people around you while eating, and whether you chew food with both sides of the teeth together or only with one side. In fact, the correct way to chew food is to chew food with both sides of the teeth together, because this can wear down the teeth on both sides, so that the teeth will become sharper and sharper. So, if you always chew on one side, is there any remedy?

From a medical point of view

The way people eat food should be to chew evenly on both sides, so that the gums on both sides can be evenly stimulated, which is beneficial to the normal development of teeth, jaws, and corresponding muscles.

However, some people are forced to use one side of their teeth to chew food for a long time due to early loss of their deciduous teeth, or due to tooth decay, or due to several lost teeth that were not repaired in time, or due to impacted third molars causing inflammation, and as a result, this becomes a habit. "Habit becomes nature", and from then on you will always chew food with the teeth on one side, which is medically called unilateral chewing.

Prone to oral diseases

When you eat, the constant friction of food on the tooth surface and the continuous flushing of the tooth surface by saliva are medically known as the self-cleaning effect of teeth. The teeth on the unused side have no chewing function and lose their self-cleaning function. Plaque and tartar are easily accumulated between the teeth, making caries very likely to occur, leading to symptoms such as gingivitis and periodontitis.

Causes tooth wear

Due to excessive use of one side of the teeth, the occlusal surface of the teeth on the chewing side can easily be worn, which can cause dentin hypersensitivity, pain when the teeth are exposed to cold or hot stimuli, and may even cause pulpitis and severe pain. At the same time, for chewing teeth that are overloaded with "work", the service life of these teeth will be shortened.

Easy to be disfigured

Chewing is also a physiological stimulation to the jaw and muscles, which is especially important for adolescents in the growth and development period. However, some teenagers are often accustomed to chewing food with only one side of their teeth, while the other side of the teeth is completely unused, which will cause many harms.

Friends with healthy teeth who know that unilateral chewing is not good can immediately and consciously chew alternately between the left and right sides, and it can be corrected in a short period of time. Friends who have oral diseases, especially those who have to chew on one side because of missing teeth that have not been repaired, should immediately go to the oral department of the hospital for necessary examinations and treatment, because the harm of missing teeth is greater than unilateral chewing.