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Aims: To test whether 3-week duration recordings of sleep bruxism
are correlated with daily behaviors. Methods: Twelve patients
with a sleep bruxism disorder were monitored to see if any daily
behaviors (stress, physical activity, anger), jaw-pain/headache
symptoms, or sleep quality were correlated with their sleep bruxism
levels. A telemetric-based system was used for monitoring
bruxism levels, which were detected with an intra-appliance piezoelectric
film system. Bruxism was defined as a force applied to the
occlusal surface of the splint at or above a level of 10% maximum
voluntary contraction. Bruxism levels were recorded at night for
at least 3 weeks on the 12 subjects in this study (6 females and 6
males). Patients used standard (100 mm) visual analog scaling
methods during this period to rate their daily behaviors, sleep
quality, and jaw-pain/ headache symptoms in a diary. Correlation
analysis was performed between these recorded variables. Results:
The subjects demonstrated both bruxism and sleep disturbance,
and the mean bruxism score for the male subjects was significantly
higher than that for the female subjects. Overall, no single diary
variable was consistently correlated with the bruxism levels in
these subjects. Conclusion: These data support the conclusion that
bruxism is not strongly related to any of the subject’s self-monitored
daytime activities or sleep quality.
J OROFAC PAIN 2003;17:65–73.
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