Noninvasive interventions for temporomandibular disorders: a scoping review of systematic reviews from 2017 to 2022.

Objectives: This scoping review assessed systematic reviews on noninvasive temporomandibular disorder therapies to identify evidence gaps and formulate clinical recommendations.

Method And Materials: The scoping review was conducted according to the PRISMA scoping review guidelines and Joanna Briggs Institute updated scoping review methodology using a two-step process involving four reviewers. Four key databases (Embase, PubMed, Scopus, and Google Scholar) were thoroughly searched from January 2017 to December 2022.

Sleep bruxism events: an epiphenomenon of severe obstructive sleep apnea?

Objectives: This study investigated the temporal relationships between apnea-hypopnea (AH) and sleep bruxism (SB) events and correlated SB to various respiratory/sleep indexes in adult patients with concomitant obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and SB.

Materials And Methods: Nocturnal PSG data of 147 consecutive OSA patients were examined for comorbid SB. Among the 49 subjects with coexisting OSA and SB, 26 were randomly selected for in-depth appraisal of temporal patterns which were classified as T1 (unrelated activities), T2 (AH events occur before SB events), T3 (SB events occur before AH events), and T4 (AH and SB events occur simultaneously).

Prevalence of Sleep Bruxism and Its Association with Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Adult Patients: A Retrospective Polysomnographic Investigation.

Aims: To determine the prevalence of sleep bruxism (SB) in adult obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) patients, to assess the association between SB and OSA in terms of sleep macrostructure and respiratory parameters, and to determine possible OSA risk factors for SB.

Methods: Type I polysomnographic data of 147 adult OSA patients (mean age 44.6 ± 12.