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Prevalence and associated factors of sleep bruxism in Turkish schoolchildren with mixed dentition: a cross-sectional study.

BMC oral health · Bulut G, Kılınç G, Güney SE, Çağan B · 2026-07-16

Sleep bruxism affected roughly one-fifth of Turkish schoolchildren with mixed dentition and was independently associated with allergic rhinitis, family history of grinding, drooling, restless sleep, and temporomandibular disorder signs—though all associations were small in magnitude.

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