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Sleep bruxism in children - from aetiology to management
Scientific Programme (On Demand)
Session Description
Sleep bruxism in children - from aetiology to management
Bruxism is an oral condition that is gaining attention from several dental and medical communities. Over the past decade, an expert panel worked to provide a consensus definition of brux ism as an umbrella
term to indicate a broad spectrum of jaw muscles activities, with or with our tooth contact, which may happen during sleep or wakefulness (Lobbezoo et al., J Oral Rehab 2018) and to prepare standardised multidimensional evaluation tools (Manfredini et al., J Oral Rehabil 2020). As such, the parental report of children’s tooth grinding during sleep should be evaluated according to the current knowledge on aetiology. Sleep bruxism in children may be just a harmless sign or be a marker of an underlying condition, such as respiratory disturbances or psychological and neurological disturbances. Within these premises, the most recent developments in the field of bruxism research, the important clinical implications for the studies on children, an d the future targets in the agenda of the expert panel will be presented in this lecture.
Learning Objectives
Bruxism is an oral condition that is gaining attention from several dental and medical communities. Over the past decade, an expert panel worked to provide a consensus definition of brux ism as an umbrella
term to indicate a broad spectrum of jaw muscles activities, with or with our tooth contact, which may happen during sleep or wakefulness (Lobbezoo et al., J Oral Rehab 2018) and to prepare standardised multidimensional evaluation tools (Manfredini et al., J Oral Rehabil 2020). As such, the parental report of children’s tooth grinding during sleep should be evaluated according to the current knowledge on aetiology. Sleep bruxism in children may be just a harmless sign or be a marker of an underlying condition, such as respiratory disturbances or psychological and neurological disturbances. Within these premises, the most recent developments in the field of bruxism research, the important clinical implications for the studies on children, an d the future targets in the agenda of the expert panel will be presented in this lecture.
Learning Objectives
- Bruxism is not necessarily a disorder
- Bruxism should be ideally measured
- Dental management should performed in a conservative manner