Effects of localized versus widespread TMD pain on sleep parameters in patients with bruxism: a single-night polysomnographic study.

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the presence of concomitant widespread pain could influence the polysomnographic characteristics of patients with Sleep Bruxism(SB) and chronic masticatory muscle pain(TMD).

Source: Archives of Oral Biology - January 13, 2017 Category: Dentistry Authors: Jos é Tadeu Tesseroli de Siqueira, Cinara Maria Camparis, Silvia Regina Siqueira, Manoel Jacobsen Teixeira, Lia Bittencourt, Sérgio Tufik Source Type: research