Objectives
Sleep bruxism has a great effect on the patient's quality of sleep, and it is expected to be associated with a lot of disorders. Especially, for children, sleep is closely relative to the children's growth and their development. Therefore, sleep bruxism should be carefully treated. Compare to its importance, the risk factors in sleep bruxism for children are not fully studied.
Methods
Parents were participated this study by answering some of questions from Stanford Sleep disorder clinic, Tucson Children's Assessment of Sleep Apnea (TuCASA) and Sleep-EVAL knowledge system. Total 604 children were surveyed for this study and they were divided into two groups group of children with and without bruxism.
Results
In sleep disorder, snoring, sleep talking and sleep apnea were at risk. And with GI disease field, indigestion, stomachache, halitosis, gas, coated tongue were refered as risk factors. Children who have allergy disease, specially rhinitis, were at greater risk and plantar fever, stomatitis were risk factors, too. And they also reported irritability, anxiety, sensitivity disorders more frequently than the no-tooth-grinding group.
Conclusions
We can find that snoring, sleep talking and sleep apnea, indigestion, stomachache, halitosis, gas, coated tongue, allergy disease, plantar fever, stomatitis, irritability, anxiety, sensitivity disorders were associated to sleep bruxism. Most of all, the factor most closely related to sleep bruxism is allergy rhinitis.
Objectives
Sleep bruxism has a great effect on the patient's quality of sleep, and it is expected to be associated with a lot of disorders. Especially, for children, sleep is closely relative to the children's growth and their development. Therefore, sleep bruxism should be carefully treated. Compare to its importance, the risk factors in sleep bruxism for children are not fully studied.
Methods
Parents were participated this study by answering some of questions from Stanford Sleep disorder clinic, Tucson Children's Assessment of Sleep Apnea (TuCASA) and Sleep-EVAL knowledge system. Total 604 children were surveyed for this study and they were divided into two groups group of children with and without bruxism.
Results
In sleep disorder, snoring, sleep talking and sleep apnea were at risk. And with GI disease field, indigestion, stomachache, halitosis, gas, coated tongue were refered as risk factors. Children who have allergy disease, specially rhinitis, were at greater risk and plantar fever, stomatitis were risk factors, too. And they also reported irritability, anxiety, sensitivity disorders more frequently than the no-tooth-grinding group.
Conclusions
We can find that snoring, sleep talking and sleep apnea, indigestion, stomachache, halitosis, gas, coated tongue, allergy disease, plantar fever, stomatitis, irritability, anxiety, sensitivity disorders were associated to sleep bruxism. Most of all, the factor most closely related to sleep bruxism is allergy rhinitis.