The OPTISMILE Podcast 126 - Stress and the Oral Cavity
Intro
Welcome back to Save Your Money, Save Your Teeth. In the previous episode, Eon Engelbrecht and Dr Clifford Yudelman looked at protecting teeth from the outside with mouthguards. This episode turns inward, to damage that almost nobody connects to their mouth: stress.
The mouth is one of the first places in the body where stress leaves fingerprints. They cover the tell-tale signs a dentist spots before a patient says a word, what cortisol does to gum tissue, how to recognise clenching and grinding, and why ulcers arrive with exam season. They also look at stress-driven dry mouth and…
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