Do you grind your teeth at night? Here’s what to do

If you're waking up fatigued and with your teeth clenched, or you have chronic jaw pain or dental sensitivity you might have sleep bruxism

Symptoms like waking up with your teeth clenched, chronic jaw pain or dental sensitivity may suggest that you’re grinding at night. But 'the gold standard' for diagnosis is the sleep study, a diagnostic test in which healthcare providers monitor brain and body activity while the subject sleeps

How do you sleep at night? I don’t mean morally — I mean physically. Does your body soften and relax into a gentle slumber? Or do you, like roughly 8% of the adult population, spend your nightly repose gritting your teeth like an NFL coach whose team is behind in overtime?

Even if you do, you might not know. Teeth grinding, also known as bruxism, occurs both during the day (awake bruxism) and at night (sleep bruxism). Sleep bruxism is generally harder to detect because, well, we’re asleep.