Melike Mercan Ba?p?nar|Çi?dem Mercan|Metin Mercan|Meena Ajay Aras
Comparison of the Oral Health?Related Quality of Life, Sleep Quality, and Oral Health Literacy in Sleep and Awake Bruxism: Results from Family Medicine Practice
Sa?l?k Bilimleri Üniversitesi|Istanbul University|Bak?rköy Dr.Sadi Konuk E?itim ve Ara?t?rma Hastanesi
bruxism common oral behaviour study aimed compare oral healthrelated quality life sleep quality oral health literacy patients without possible sleep bruxism sb awake bruxism aba crosssectional study including 249 volunteers conducted family medicine clinic tertiary hospital istanbul turkey american sleep medicine association bruxism diagnostic criteria pittsburgh sleep quality index psqi oral healthrelated quality life ohrqol tool decay missing filled total teeth dmft score health literacy dental scaleshort form held14 assessed facetoface interviews data examined using kruskalwallis mannwhitney u tests spearman correlation logistic regression analysisthe presence sb ab detected 414 217 respectively among 91 males 158 females mean age 3664 1160 years sleep awake bruxers lower oral healthrelated quality life odds ratio 0816 95 confidence interval ci 07700864 0923 95 ci 09560982 respectively poor sleep quality detected 128 times higher sleep bruxism 1277 95 ci 11521415 114 times higher awake bruxism 1141 95 ci 12301058 dmft score found 113 times higher sb 1129 95 ci 10431223 higher held14 score associated lower dmft score p 0001 r 0240 oral health literacy score lower ab sb groups patients without bruxism statistically significant p 0267 p 0376a lower oral healthrelated quality life poor sleep quality would expected presence sb ab however patients may aware unless asked physician regardless oral health literacy level