RESUMEN
Nonodontogenic sources of dental pain can be extremely challenging to diagnose. It is critical to establish a proper diagnosis to ensure that treatment is directed toward the source of the pain rather than the site of the pain.
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Odontalgia/etiología , HumanosRESUMEN
Sleep bruxism, an intensified manifestation of rhythmic masticatory muscle activity, characterized by tooth grinding or clenching during sleep, lacks a definitive physiological purpose. This paper posits that physiologically, sleep bruxism is an autonomic self-regulatory response to nighttime occurrences of tachycardia stemming from the brain experiencing microarousals during sleep. Sleep bruxism by triggering the trigeminal cardiac reflex leads to bradycardia. Rhythmic masticatory muscle activity-sleep bruxism, thereby, serves to slow the heart rate when brain microarousals cause tachycardia.
