Bruxism in children treatment: Systematic review of the literature
Objectives: The aim of this review is to study the therapeutic approaches of bruxism in children Methods: The bibliographic research was conducted in three research databases: Pubmed, Research Gate and Lilacs. Only articles published between 2000 and 2018 were considered. The following keywords Were used: “Bruxism”, “Children”, “Child”, “Treatment”, “Management”, “Occlusal splint Therapy” , “Therapeutics”, “Drug Therapy”, “Prevention and Control “, “Psychology”, “Rehabilitation”, “Surgery”, “Physical Therapy Modalities” , “Cognitive Therapy”, “Psychoanalytic Therapy”, “Exercise Therapy”, “Respiratory Therapy”, “Adenoids”, ”Child Therapy”. The relevant data contained in the selected articles were extracted and analyzed according to a predefined reading grid elaborated by the authors of this work.
Results: A total of 22 articles were selected. After deleting the 5 repetitive publications between the three searches, 17 relevant articles were finally selected for our systematic review. Two types of bruxism treatment were described: reversible therapies such as psychological, pharmacological and orthopedic therapies; and irreversible surgical therapies that are indicated in case of associated respiratory diseases.
Conclusions: The reversible therapeutics are the most indicated approaches for the treatment of bruxism in children. However the investigation of etiologic factors must be considered as a first step of the diagnosis of bruxism of children in order to improve prognostics of this parafunction
Tunisian Annual Meeting
2018 Tunisian Annual Meeting (Monastir, Tunisia) Monastir, Tunisia
2018
Pediatric Oral Health Research
Zegdene, Sayma
( faculty of dental medecine of monastir
, Monastir
, Tunisia
; faculty of dental medecine of monastir
, Monastir
, Monastir
, Tunisia
)
Chebbi, Raja
( faculty of dental medecine of monastir
, Monastir
, Tunisia
)
Ben Khalifa, Hanen
( faculty of dental medecine of monastir
, Monastir
, Tunisia
)
Nouri, Emna
( faculty of dental medecine of monastir
, Monastir
, Monastir
, Tunisia
)
Dhidah, Monia
( faculty of dental medecine of monastir
, Monastir
, Tunisia
)