How Stress Affects Your Oral Health
Stress is not only gives us headaches and makes us feel we’re “on the edge.” Stress also causes adverse effects to your teeth, gums, and mouth.
Key takeaways:
- Foul mood caused by stress may cause people to skip routine oral healthcare tasks such as brushing and flossing. Stress also causes poor eating habits that lead to poor oral health.
- Stress causes cold sores and mouth ulcers, since it leads to compromised immunity.
- Teeth grinding is linked with stress and will cause damage to teeth.
Stress can lead to depression, and depressed patients, according to research, have twice the risk of an unfavorable outcome from gum disease treatment compared to those who are not depressed.
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