Bruxism
Bruxism is excessive teeth grinding or jaw clenching. It is an oral parafunctional movement, it is unrelated to normal function for example, eating or talking. Bruxism is a common behavior, reports of pervasiveness range from 8– 31% in the general population. Several indications are normally connected with bruxism, including hypersensitive teeth, throbbing jaw muscle, tooth wear, headache and damage to dental restorations (e.g. crowns and fillings) to teeth. But symptoms may be minimal, without patient attention to the condition.
There are two types of bruxism: one occurs during sleep (nighttime/ nocturnal bruxism) and one during wakefulness (conscious/Awake bruxism). Dental damage may be similar in both the types, but the symptoms of sleep bruxism tend to be worse on waking and enhance throughout the day, and the side effects of awake bruxism may not be available at all on waking, and then worsen over the day.
Dental Research and Management is an open access dentistry journal which publishes Research/Review/Mini-Review/Short communication/Case Reports related to Dentistry. The Journal follows the rapid review process and covers the topics related to dentistry.
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