Mental disorder and bruxism | Balkan Journal of Dental Medicine

Qafmolla Alketa, Çanga Mimoza, Qafmolla Ruzhdie

Faculty of Dental Medicine, Tirana, Albania

Abstract

Background / Aim: Depression as a complex mental, emotional condition, negatively affects productivity, its diagnosis requires accurate emotional analysis for patients who have an imbalance of neuro-psychiatric function. Bruxism is related to teeth grinding, jaw clenching at any time. The purpose of this study was to determination the correlation between patients with mental disorders and the occurrence of bruxism. Material and Methods: During 2019-2023 were examined 30 patients from the psychiatry department of QSU “Mother Tereza”, Tirana, 13 were female, 17 male, aged 20-50 years. Also was investigated the control group with 119 students, aged 18-25. Two groups were observed according to the questionnaire related to the occurrence, content of bruxism. The treatment of the patients was combined by following methods: psychological, use of relaxing medications, prosthetic treatment by relaxant splints. Results: Bruxism with jaw muscle pain, abrasion was found in 80% of cases in the study group with a p ≤ 0.001, and 50.4% in the control group, finding a statistical relationship of bruxism between 2 groups, p = 0.01. Conclusions: Psychogenic – emotional is main factor and role in the bruxism presence. Referring our study, local and foreign authors, the treatment of this diagnosis must be done by combined therapeutic-prosthetic method.

Keywords: bruxism; psychological emotion; neuro-physiatry disorder; stress; muscles pain

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Balkan Journal of Dental Medicine, 2023, vol. 27, br. 3, str. 187-191