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	Pr Frank LOBBEZOO
	Frank Lobbezoo (1964) graduated cum laude as dentist in 1988 from the University of Utrecht (UU), (The Netherlands). PhD degree in 1992 from the UU, and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Montreal (Canada). He was appointed at ACTA (Amsterdam) as a full professor in 2005. In 2014, he was appointed as Chair of the Department of Oral Health Sciences and Vice-Dean of ACTA. Frank Lobbezoo is specialized in TMD/Orofacial Pain, President of the Dutch Dental Society (NTG), Past President of the European Academy of Craniomandibular Disorders (EACD), and Past President of the International RDC/TMD Consortium, a Network of the International Association of Dental Research (IADR).
menu	Bruxism and related disorders

The emerging discipline “Dental Sleep Medicine” (DSM) focusses on orofacial pain and related disorders, oral moistening disorder (xerostomia, hypersalivation), gastro-esophageal reflux disorder (GERD), sleep-breathing disorder (snoring, obstructive sleep apnea – OSA), and mandibular movement disorder (dyskinesia, dystonia, sleep bruxism). This presentation will focus on bruxism and its interactions with three disorders for which bruxism has been described as a possible protective factor, viz., cognitive decline, GERD, and OSA. There are animal and human studies, that more masticatory muscle activity (MMA) is associated with better cognitive functioning. MMA/bruxism is also suggested to be associated with increased salivation, which might contribute to reducing the negative effects of GERD. Finally, the number of studies focusing on the association between sleep bruxism (SB) and OSA is on the rise, many of which suggest a possible role of increased MMA is the prevention of upper airway collapse. For the associations of MMA/bruxism with cognitive functioning and salivation, evidence from the literature will be discussed. For the association between (SB) and OSA, the first results of a recent polysomnographic investigation will be presented.