Herrera LIB, Núñez CYL

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

Sleeping is a physiologic active status, with immunologic and endocrine functions. The psychopathologic processes and psychiatric disorders are accompanied by several sleeping disorders among them, nocturnal bruxism. With the objective of showing current information about sleeping bruxism, a library research was performed based on investigation and searching of 56 documents in diverse data bases: LIS, MEDLINE, COCHRANE, LILACS, SeCiMed. Some articles about etiology, signs and symptoms, diagnosis and treatment were taken into account, as well as presentation of cases. 45 articles of the last 5 years were consulted for an 80.3%. Sleeping bruxism is a para function very difficult to detect by the patient, having long periods of time without realizing the causes of so many painful symptoms. Most of the time it is detected by the professional in the consultation, making the patients conscious of their pathology. It is one of the most frequent parasomnias. It has a high incidence and prevalence in the population. Its treatment is very difficult because it is multifactorial.