Bruxism secondary to brain injury treated with Botulinum toxin-A: a case report

We report a successful treatment of bruxism in a patient with anoxic brain injury using botulinum toxin-A (BTX-A). On examination the mouth opening was 0 mm, no feeding was possible through the mouth. Botulinum toxin was injected into the masseter and temporalis; great improvement in trismus and bru...

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Autores principales: El Maaytah, Mohammed, Jerjes, Waseem, Upile, Tahwinder, Swinson, Brian, Hopper, Colin, Ayliffe, Peter
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1679798/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17123443
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-160X-2-41
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Sumario:We report a successful treatment of bruxism in a patient with anoxic brain injury using botulinum toxin-A (BTX-A). On examination the mouth opening was 0 mm, no feeding was possible through the mouth. Botulinum toxin was injected into the masseter and temporalis; great improvement in trismus and bruxism was noted after 3 weeks. One further treatment improved the mouth opening on the following week and the patient was discharged from our care to be reviewed when required.

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