Humanidades Médicas (Jun 2020)
Bruxism and academic stress in students of the medical sciences
Abstract
Introduction: The students of the specialties of the medical sciences, especially those of 1st year, develop themselves in a stressful ambience, due to the emotional imbalance provoked by the requirements of the teaching - learning process; situation that, of not being attended in a suitable way, can unleash in the appearance of the bruxism. That´s why, the present work takes as objective to describe the behavior of the bruxism related to the academic stress in the students of the first year of Medicine, Dentistry and Infirmary of the University of Medical Sciences of Camagüey. Method: A descriptive and cross-sectional study was carried out during the period understood between October, 2018 and March, 2020. The universe was constituted by 748 students of the first year of the mentioned specialties, of the academic courses 2018-2019 and 2019-2020. The chosen sample of random form was integrated by 90 students. Results: More than half of the examined students were diagnosed with bruxism, with predominance of the central bruxism. The Medicine students resulted to be those of major affectation. The most frequent symptoms were the muscular pain, the above-mentioned dental grinding, as well as the pain to articulate and the signs, the muscular hypertrophy and the facets of parafunctional wear at enamel level. Discussion: The cases predominance was stated at levels of moderate academic stress continued by levels of light stress. Almost the totality of these patients presented bruxism, with predominance of the central type.
