Effect of Occlusal Splint Guidance on Masseter Muscle Activity During Sleep in Adults with Sleep Bruxism: A Preliminary Randomized Crossover Clinical Trial
Megumi Matsuyama, Masayuki Takaba, Yuka Abe, Kohei Maejima, Shiori Okuhara, Toshiro Hirai, Kazuyoshi Baba, Bruno Chrcanovic · 2025
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Description
Megumi Matsuyama and seven colleagues published a dental trial report in two thousand twenty-five on mouth splints for teeth grinding in sleep. Grinding, called sleep bruxism, wears teeth and strains jaw muscles. Splints can guide the jaw in different ways, and it is unclear which guidance works best.
Twenty-four adults with sleep grinding each wore two splint types in turn, one favouring balanced contact and one guided by the canine teeth. Each splint was worn at home for over a month. Muscle activity sensors and sleep recorders tracked the nights. Twenty-three people finished, and the two splints showed no clear differences in muscle activity, sleep pattern, or comfort. The authors treat the small trial as groundwork for a larger one.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Megumi Matsuyama, Masayuki Takaba, Yuka Abe, Kohei Maejima, Shiori Okuhara, Toshiro Hirai, Kazuyoshi Baba, Bruno Chrcanovic |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 50 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |