2006/04/01 by Frank Lobbezoo, J. van der Zaag, M. Naeije · 4 citations
Health Professions · Medicine · Dentistry · Psychology · #Temporomandibular Joint Disorders #Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders #Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics #Etiology #Implant failure #Medicine #Dentistry #Implant #Psychology #Psychiatry #Surgery
paper · doi:10.1111/j.1365-2842.2006.01609.x
openalex publication_date 2006/04/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
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.