Toxina botulínica como tratamento auxiliar do bruxismo: uma revisão de literatura

Abstract

Bruxism is a parafunctional habit that is characterized by grinding and squeezing teeth, caused by several factors, such as psychological, nutritional, hereditary and local, such as malocclusion and dental trauma. As it is a multifactorial problem that encompasses several traditional treatments, these often fail and are not effective in controlling the signs and symptoms of bruxism. The objective of this work is to evaluate the efficiency of botulinum toxin in the treatment of bruxism, where research was searched in the databases PUBMED, SCIELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online), LILACS (Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences) and Academic Google. There are several treatments for bruxism, but these failed to obtain good results, which happened in the search for botulinum toxin as a form of treatment, which allowed us to conclude that its use had relevant results in the treatment of bruxism with proof of pain reduction, muscle contracture, decreased masticatory muscle activity and duration and frequency of bruxism.