Clinical management of childhood sleeps bruxism

Abstract

Although it’s considerable prevalence, diagnosis and treatment of SB still raises doubts for clinicians and researchers. SB is defined as a parafunctional activity of the masticatory muscles, which differs through the circadian moment in which the event takes place: during sleep (SB) or in waking state (awake bruxism).2 Such parafunction is not seen as a disorder, but rather as a motor behavior of multifactorial etiology, which turns out to be a sign of some other health condition.3,4