Bite force in children with bruxism

vozzlme Number

Reviews and abstracts 691

66 6

on the growth patterns of structures of the cranial base, which may lead to a better understanding of the fundamental problems of development of the cranial base as to size and shape.

Bite Force

in Children

Berit Lindqvist Acta

Odontol.

With

and Margareta hand.

31:

Bruxism Ringqvist

,955, 1973

The bite force of fifty-one la-year-old bruxists was compared with that of a control group of the same age in order to establish whether bruxism affects bite force and whether there is any connection between the degree of tooth abrasion and bite force. Criteria for bruxism were bruxo facets in the bite and, in the same children, tooth grinding at the time of examination. No differences in bite force values among bruxists and nonbruxists were found for either very light bite or maximum bite. One group with dentin facets had a higher bite force value for very light bite than the children with enamel facets. Otherwise, there was no difference between the various facet groups with respect to the bite force produced.