Apical periodontitis after intense bruxism.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Bruxism is known to cause masticatory muscle pain, temporomandibular joint pain, headaches, mechanical tooth wear, prosthodontic complications and cracked teeth. Less known to the practitioner, and described only experimentally in literature, is that bruxism can also damage the pulp. To our knowledge, this is the first known clinical case of a patient developing apical periodontitis due to bruxism.

Case presentation

This article presents the case and successful treatment of a 28-year-old healthy male patient with apical periodontitis on teeth 36 and 46 requiring root canal treatment after an intense phase of bruxism. Due to an unclear diagnosis, treatment had been delayed.

Conclusions

Incomprehensible tooth pain can be the result of bruxism. Practitioners n

SUBMITTER: Gund MP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8951715 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature