The reports of specific waking-state oral behaviours, including awake bruxism activities, and psychological distress have a dose-response relationship: A retrospective medical record study.

Objective: To investigate if there are dose-response relationships between self-reported waking-state oral behaviours, including awake bruxism, and three indicators of psychological distress (depression, anxiety, stress).

Methods: The study sample consisted of 1,886 patients with function-dependent TMD pain. Relationships between six non-functional and six functional waking-state oral behaviours, scored on a 5-point ordinal scale, and the psychological factors were investigated using ordinal logistic regression.

[Oral care in patients with ALS: an exploratory study].

For this exploratory study, ALS patients and their partners/caregivers were interviewed to find out what problems they encounter when performing oral care. In addition, the tooth brushing procedure was recorded on video. Most mentioned by the six patients was that the performance of oral care is hampered by the loss of motor skills and by the gag reflex.

Psychological distress and the belief that oral behaviours put a strain on the masticatory system in relation to the self-report of awake bruxism: Four scenarios.

Background: It is assumed that other factors than masticatory muscle activity awareness could drive the self-report of awake bruxism.

Objectives: To investigate the extent to which the report of awake bruxism is associated with psychological distress, and with the belief that oral behaviours put a strain on the masticatory system among TMD-pain patients.

Materials And Methods: The study sample consisted of 1830 adult patients with reported function-dependent TMD pain.

Psychosocial factors associated with pain outcomes in patients with painful temporomandibular disorders and headaches.

The objective of this study was to assess the association between psychosocial factors (in terms of anxiety, somatization, depression, and optimism) and pain (in terms of headache pain intensity and pain-related disability), in patients with a painful temporomandibular disorder (TMD) and one of the following headache types: migraine, tension-type headache (TTH), or headache attributed to TMD, corrected for the influence of bruxism. A retrospective study was conducted at an orofacial pain and dysfunction (OPD) clinic. Inclusion criteria were painful TMD, with migraine, TTH, and/or headache attributed to TMD.