Presence of bruxism according to the type of cerebral palsy

Abstract

Purpose: to determine the presence of bruxism, according to the type of cerebral palsy. Methods: a descriptive, cross-sectional, quantitative study with a non-experimental design. A total of 55 children with cerebral palsy were evaluated, using an oral observation sheet, and data were analyzed by non-parametric tests of frequencies, percentages, arithmetic mean and descriptive statistics. Results: there was a majority of male children, with mean age 10.56 years. Sleep bruxism and daytime tooth clenching prevailed in the spastic cerebral palsy with 75% and 55.6% respectively, compared to the other types of cerebral palsy (p=0.034). In the characteristics of oral cavity, the presence of wear facets was observed, associated with all types of bruxism (p<0.05). Conclusion: there was a high prevalence of bruxism in spastic cerebral palsy, evidencing the need to implement treatment options for this pathology in people presented with cerebral palsy, requiring more studies, with standardized diagnostic protocols and representative samples to evaluate the factors that influence the presence of several types of bruxism.