What's wrong with biting cheeks while eating

Some people always bite their lips and cheeks when eating. Everyone would say that they are craving for meat. In fact, if this happens to many elderly people, you must be careful. This may be due to too much mental stress, lack of concentration when eating, thinking about something or being attracted by something. These are all reasons that may lead to this situation.

When people bite their cheeks while eating, the elderly often say that they are too greedy.

First of all, it’s really not caused by greed.

The phenomenon of biting yourself can actually happen when you are not concentrating or eating too quickly.

Because the cheeks are close to the teeth, during the chewing process, if your attention is diverted, or you are chatting with others, or you eat too eagerly, the tongue and teeth will not coordinate well and you will of course bite yourself, either your tongue or your cheeks.

So, eating is also something that needs to be taken seriously.

Secondly, biting your cheek while eating may be related to stress and mental tension. When the body and mind are overly tired, the nervous system's control and coordination of muscles during chewing will be affected, which will of course lead to cheek biting.

However, both of the above are normal phenomena and can be improved by taking a short rest or adjusting your condition. If cheek biting always occurs, you should be alert to the following problems:

1. Oral deformity

For example, the upper teeth and lower teeth do not fit together well, or there are protruding teeth. This causes damage to our cheeks during chewing, and this phenomenon must be treated by dental care in a timely manner. Repeated biting of the cheeks and damage to the oral mucosa create opportunities for oral cancer to occur.

2. Acquired dental problems

If you have missing teeth, wisdom teeth, cavities, dentures, etc., these dental problems will inevitably cause friction with the cheeks and tongue, and biting the cheeks and tongue is inevitable. However, the consequence of this is traumatic ulcers, which will increase the risk of tongue cancer over time.

Therefore, acquired dental problems still require seeing a doctor. Even if you are installing dentures, you need to pay attention to comfort. When oral trauma occurs, you should not wear them until they have healed.

3. Precursor of cerebral infarction

Cerebral infarction is mainly caused by arteriosclerosis, thrombosis and vascular blockage. As the blood vessels gradually narrow, they can cause damage to the nervous system, such as hemiplegia and brain death in some cerebral blood vessels.

Oral inflexibility, slow swallowing, prolonged chewing time, drooling, dizziness, slurred speech, etc. are also precursors to myocardial infarction. Once people with the three highs experience similar symptoms, they should seek medical attention immediately to avoid delaying the disease.

Finally, regarding tongue biting, if you often bite your tongue during sleep, it is unconscious and the wound is always in the same place, then in this case you should have a minor check-up in the neurology department to confirm whether it is a neurological disease. In addition, if you often grind your teeth during sleep, you also need to consider whether it is a neurological disease.