Oral appliances reduce masticatory muscle activity-sleep bruxism metrics independently of changes in heart rate variability
Dental News and Technology
MAY 20, 2022
Clinical Oral Investigations ( 2022) details Abstract Objectives Sleep bruxism (SB) is associated with physiological activities including sympathetic autonomic system dominance and sleep micro-arousal. While oral appliances (OA) are used to prevent SB harmful effects, the influence of OAs physiological mechanisms during sleep is unknown. The aim of this study is to assess whether heart rate variability (HRV) changes, as a marker of autonomic nervous system activity, would be associated with the
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