Prevalencia de lesiones no cariosas asociadas al bruxismo. Revisión de la literatura.

Abstract

Introduction: Stomatology has been widely devoted to the study of dental caries and periodontal disease, diseases recognized to this day as those with the highest incidence and prevalence in the stomatognathic complex. However, modern lifestyles have influenced the appearance of new oral conditions that constitute real challenges for the professional. Objective: Determine the prevalence of non-carious lesions associated with bruxism; NCCL is a multifactorial dental condition. Methodology: A search was carried out on noncarious cervical lesions associated with bruxism. By means of the search engines Pubmed, Google academic and the virtual library of the Universidad Católica Santiago de Guayaquil. The universe is 200 articles from which a sample selection of 30 articles was obtained. Results: According to the compilation of bibliographic information it has been established that, regarding the relationship between non-carious cervical lesions and bruxism, the most prevalent lesions in bruxopathic patients are attriction and abfraction. The results obtained on the basis of the published studies on the type of bruxism according to the movement are Eccentric and Centric Bruxism in relation to non-carious cervical lesions in which 21 articles out of 30 gave the result that 70.1% were predominantly eccentric. The teeth most commonly affected by attrition were the mandibular anterior teeth with 58%, and with regard to the prevalence of etiological factors we have dental sensitivity (80%) in patients who presented non-carious cervical lesions, the majority did not suffer from sensitivity. Conclusion: We can conclude that in the compilation of data we obtained a greater prevalence of noncarious lesions associated with bruxism are of the abfraction and attrition type, mostly in females over 40 years of age.