Trial reportClinical oral investigations2022
Variability of sleep bruxism-findings from consecutive nights of monitoring.
Trial report in Clinical oral investigations, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
All-ceramic Crowns in Patients With Sleep Bruxism - a Randomized Clinical Trial
Analysis of Changes in Electromyographic Activity in Aligner Treatment of Adult Patients With and Without Nocturnal Bruxism: Single-centre Interventional Case-control With Device
Who cites it
8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Pharmacologic Management of Sleep Bruxism in Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Polysomnographic Outcomes.Journal of oral rehabilitation · 2026Pooled it
- Updating the Bruxism Definitions: Report of an International Consensus Meeting.Journal of oral rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Occlusion, jaw function and nocturnal muscle tone in obstructive sleep apnea with and without sleep bruxism.Clinical oral investigations · 2025Article
- Comparison between two different registration protocols for the count of sleep bruxism events in a sample of healthy individuals.Clinical oral investigations · 2025Article
- Understanding the clinical management of co-occurring sleep-related bruxism and obstructive sleep apnea in adults: A narrative and critical review.Journal of prosthodontics : official journal of the American College of Prosthodontists · 2025Review
- Validity between signs and symptoms of sleep bruxism against a validated portable electromyographic device.Journal of clinical and experimental dentistry · 2024Article
- Is sleep bruxism in obstructive sleep apnea only an oral health related problem?BMC oral health · 2024Article
- Sleep bruxism events: an epiphenomenon of severe obstructive sleep apnea?Clinical oral investigations · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo determine sleep bruxism (SB) behavior during five consecutive nights and to identify correlations between SB episodes per hour (SB index) and sleep-time masseter-muscle activity (sMMA). MATERIAL AND
methodsThirty-one participants were included in the study. Of these, 10 were classified as sleep bruxers (group SB-1) and nine as non-sleep bruxers (group non-SB). The bruxism status of these 19 patients was identified by means of questionnaires, an assessment of clinical symptoms, and electromyographic/electrocardiographic data (Bruxoff® device). The remaining 12 participants were also identified as bruxers, but based exclusively on data from the Bruxoff device (group SB-2). Data analysis included descriptive statistics and Spearman's correlation to assess the relationship between the SB index and sMMA.
resultsParticipants in group SB-1 showed an overall mean SB index of 3.1 ± 1.6 and a mean total sMMA per night of 62.9 ± 38.3. Participants in group SB-2 had an overall mean SB index of 2.7 ± 1.5 and a mean total sMMA of 56.0 ± 29.3. In the non-SB group, participants showed an overall mean SB index of 0.8 ± 0.5 and a mean total sMMA of 56.8 ± 30.3. Spearman's correlation yielded values of - 0.27 to 0.71 for the correlation between sMMA and SB index.
conclusionsThe data revealed variable SB activity and the absence of a reliable correlation between sMMA and the SB index. CLINICAL RELEVANCE: The high variation in SB activity and lack of correlation between sMMA and the SB index should be considered when diagnosing SB.
trial registrationClinical Trials [NIH], clinical trial no. NCT03039985.
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