Bruxismo infantil: uma revisão de literatura

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Currently, the Dental Surgeon has to be aware of several factors that are not related to teeth, but that can affect people's oral cavity. With the COVID-19 pandemic and the quarantine that still lasts for more than a year, factors such as anxiety, emotional and psychological problems are becoming more evident. The search for professionals from various areas of health has become essential and one of these areas is dentistry, which aims to train trained professionals in terms of not only seeing teeth, but a broad view of the patient as a whole. One of these oral problems that we can mention is bruxism, which involves several factors, is difficult to define, affects children and adults and one of the first professionals to diagnose is the dentist. METHODOLOGY: This work consists of an integrative literature review addressing the etiological factors, diagnosis and possible treatments related to childhood bruxism. The motivation for this study is, due to the pandemic, many emotional and psychological problems have become evident and affected the oral cavity in adults and children and, in addition, according to the Society of Pediatrics of São Paulo, the exaggerated use of tablets and video games has become risk factors for bruxism in children. FINAL CONSIDERATIONS: Through this literature review, it is possible to conclude that childhood bruxism has a multifactorial etiology that is difficult to diagnose and treat, involving several professionals, including the dentist. In the literature, we found several articles on the subject, however, in most of them there is no agreement and great lack of standardization.