Did Covid turn us into teeth grinders?
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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James Gallagher finds out if we've turned into a nation of grinders after reports from dentists of increased clenching and cracking of teeth. Margaret McCartney answers your feedback about the new weight-loss drug, exercise for your back, sperm counts and then goes for retail therapy with James to discover how useful shopping data could be for understanding our health.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Greg Jenna and good news, Your Dead to Me is back for a new series. Here we go. Yes, we'll explore Emperor Nero's notorious reign with Professor Marybeard and Patton Oswald. I would not want my daughter having the remote control, not alone an empire. We'll dissect the decadent life of Philippe Duke-Dor-Leon with Tom Allen. I've often tried to pretend I'm an aristocrat and being very quickly knocked down. And there'll be so much more with comedians like Olga Koch, Mike Mosniak and Rihalina. I'm excited. You're dead to me. The comedy podcast that takes history seriously. Listen first on BBC Sounds. Hello there, and welcome to the Inside Health podcast. I'm James Gallagher. I can't believe it. It's |
| 0:39.2 | already our last edition of this series. I'm going to be going for some celebratory retail therapy |
| 0:44.8 | later and we can see what my shopping basket tells me about my health. But first, we finished |
| 0:50.9 | on a cliffhanger last time. Writer Naomi Alderman was preparing for her new TV series, The Power, when things took a mysterious turn in the dentist's chair. |
| 1:00.8 | So, and I've been waiting ages to say this. |
| 1:03.5 | Previously on Inside Health. |
| 1:08.0 | My dentist said to me, right, I've got a crack in one of my teeth, and he said, |
| 1:13.4 | this is just going to get worse because you're grinding your teeth. |
| 1:16.4 | So how did he know you've been grinding your teeth? |
| 1:18.2 | Well, apparently there are sort of little bits that are worn down. |
| 1:21.7 | There's lots of signs on the teeth. |
| 1:23.3 | Did you know? |
| 1:24.2 | No, I had no idea. |
| 1:26.8 | I've been told that I snore, but I had not been told that I grind. |
| 1:31.6 | It sounds like I'm putting on a disco in there. |
| 1:34.2 | So having told me, I grind. |
| 1:36.6 | He said, oh yes, this is very common and has become much more common since the apocalypse. |
| 1:41.5 | I mean the pandemic. |
| 1:42.7 | Okay, so how common did your dentist think it was? |
| 1:45.1 | So what he said to me was that before the pandemic, |
| 1:48.3 | it was between one in five and one in four people who came in had signs of grinding, |
| 1:53.1 | and now it's more than half. |
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