Sleep Medicine Reviews
Volume 4, Issue 1 , Pages 27-43 , February 2000

Sleep bruxism; an overview of an oromandibular sleep movement disorder: REVIEW ARTICLE

  • Gaby Bader

      Affiliations

    • Sleep Unit, Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Institute of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
    • ,
  • Gilles Lavigne

      Affiliations

    • (1) Centre d»étude sur le sommeil, Hopital Sacré-Coeur and (2) Neuroscience Research Center, Faculté de Médecine Dentaire et de Médecine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, H3C 3J7, Canada

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Sleep Medicine Reviews
Volume 4, Issue 1 , Pages 27-43 , February 2000

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