Bruxism: its multiple causes and its effects on dental implants Ò an updated review*

Bruxism: its multiple causes and its effects on dental implants Ò an updated review*
Issue online:
11 Apr 2006
Accepted for publication 7 November 2005
To cite this article: F. LOBBEZOO, J. VAN DER ZAAG, M. NAEIJE (2006)
Bruxism: its multiple causes and its effects on dental implants - an updated review*
Journal of Oral Rehabilitation 33 (4), 293Ò300.
doi:10.1111/j.1365-2842.2006.01609.x
Journal of Oral Rehabilitation
Blackwell Synergy

F. LOBBEZOO, J. VAN DER ZAAG & M. NAEIJE
Department of Oral Function, Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dr Frank Lobbezoo, Department of Oral Function, Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA), Louwesweg 1, 1066 EA Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
E-mail: f.lobbezoo@acta.nl

*Based on the Journal of Oral Rehabilitation Summer School 2005 in Bavagna, Italy. Kindly sponsored by Blackwell Munksgaard and Nobel Biocare.

Abstract

summary There is a growing interest in bruxism, as evidenced by the rapidly increasing number of papers about this subject during the past 5 years. The aim of the present review was to provide an update of two previous reviews from our department (one about the aetiology of bruxism and the other about the possible role of this movement disorder in the failure of dental implants) and to describe the details of the literature search strategies used, thus enabling the readers to judge the completeness of the review. Most studies that were published about the etiology during the past 5 years corroborate the previously drawn conclusions. Similarly, the update of the review about the possible causal relationship between bruxism and implant failure reveals no new points of view. Thus, there is no reason to assume otherwise than that bruxism is mainly regulated centrally, not peripherally, and that there is still insufficient evidence to support or refute a causal relationship between bruxism and implant failure. This illustrates that there is a vast need for well-designed studies to study both the aetiology of bruxism and its purported relationship with implant failure.

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