tailieunhanh - báo cáo khoa học:" Bruxism secondary to brain injury treated with Botulinum toxin-A: a case report"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Bruxism secondary to brain injury treated with Botulinum toxin-A: a case report | Head Face Medicine BioMed Central Case report Open Access Bruxism secondary to brain injury treated with Botulinum toxin-A a case report Mohammed El Maaytah 1 2 Waseem Jerjes1 Tahwinder Upile1 Brian Swinson1 Colin Hopper1 and Peter Ayliffe1 Address 1Oral Maxillofacial Surgery Head Neck Unit University College London Hospitals London UK and 2Division of Maxillofacial Diagnostic Medical and Surgical Sciences Eastman Dental Institute 256 Gray s Inn Road London WC1X 8LD UK Email Mohammed El Maaytah - elmaaytah@ Waseem Jerjes - waseem_wk1@ Tahwinder Upile - mrtupile@ Brian Swinson - brianswinson@ Colin Hopper - Peter Ayliffe - Corresponding author Published 23 November 2006 Received 04 July 2006 Accepted 23 November 2006 Head Face Medicine 2006 2 41 doi 1746-160X-2-41 H This article is available from http content 2 1 41 2006 El Maaytah et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract We report a successful treatment of bruxism in a patient with anoxic brain injury using botulinum toxin-A BTX-A . On examination the mouth opening was 0 mm no feeding was possible through the mouth. Botulinum toxin was injected into the masseter and temporalis great improvement in trismus and bruxism was noted after 3 weeks. One further treatment improved the mouth opening on the following week and the patient was discharged from our care to be reviewed when required. Background The term bruxism is derived from the Greek work brychein which means to grind or gnash the teeth . The reported prevalence is 5 to 96 in adult populations 1-5 and 15 in children 6 . Bruxism is often noted in patients with altered states of .