Abstract

HERNANDEZ REYES, Bismar et al. Factores de riesgo de bruxismo en pacientes adultos: Risk factors of bruxism in adult patients. AMC [online]. 2017, vol.21, n.3, pp.311-320. ISSN 1025-0255.

Background: bruxism is among the parafunctional alterations the most prevalent, complex and destructive of the orofacial disorders. Objective: to determine the risk factors of bruxism adult patients assisted in the dental Occlussion. Methods: an analytical study of control-cases was carried out from January 2014 to 2016, from a universe of 2000 patients, by means of a simple random sampling, the selection of the sample was composed of 678 individuals, divided in two groups: a study group and a control group, integrated by 339 patients each one, the associations between the alleged risk factors and the occurrence of bruxism were evaluated by unvaried and multivaried logistic regression. Results: there was a risk relationship between bruxism and stress, the resource of facing stress with a negative focalization, the smoking toxic habit, occlusive interference and malocclusion. Conclusions: the likelihood of being a bruxist patient was determined in relation to the included variables and to estimate the independent influence of each variable over bruxism when controlling the rest of them.

Keywords : RUXISM [etiology]; RISK FACTORS; DENTAL OCCLUSION; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES.

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