Sleep bruxism

Evidence-based neurology checklist on sleep bruxism: Clinical features This is a noisy grinding or clenching jaw movement in sleep The onset is in childhood It is more frequent in people with learning difficulty It usually occurs in stage 2 of NREM sleep Clinical types Risk factors: SSRIs Risk…

Clinical features

  • This is a noisy grinding or clenching jaw movement in sleep
  • The onset is in childhood
  • It is more frequent in people with learning difficulty
  • It usually occurs in stage 2 of NREM sleep

Clinical types

Risk factors: SSRIs

Risk factors: others

Complications

Differential diagnosis

Treatments

Acronyms

References

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  5. Sabuncuoglu O, Ekinci O, Berkem M. Fluoxetine-induced sleep bruxism in an adolescent treated with buspirone: a case report. Spec Care Dentist 2009; 29:215-217. 
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