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See Latest ArticlesTMD and the problem of bruxism. A review
Journal of Bodywork & Movement Therapies , 08/13/07
Kalamir, A., et al. - The majority of studies found a relationship between bruxism and TMD. However, inconsistency and equivocation of different parafunctional activities are common within the literature. The subject is further complicated by the lack of a universally accepted definition of both TMD and bruxism and an additional failure to standardise investigative variables such as frequency, duration and intensity of episodes. The role of bruxism as it is currently described can therefore be considered a controversial and unresolved issue. The authors suggest that the term bruxism be abandoned in favour of a set of diagnostically more appropriate descriptors
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