Prognosis
After eliminating the disturbing factors, the prognosis is good. As in adults, children can also have nightly teeth grinding. In older children and adolescents, the causes are usually unmanaged stress, which is discharged by the grinding, or malpositioned teeth.
In children up to 3 years of age, grinding is a completely natural process and serves to grind in the erupting milk teeth. A therapy is not necessary. In older children and adolescents, the therapy consists in eliminating the stress factors or positional anomalies of the teeth.
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