Using your jaws sharpens your teeth… and mind!

Frank Lobbezoo¹, Chia-Shu Lin^{2

3

4}, Mats Trulsson^{5

6}, Abhishek Kumar^{5

6}, Merel C Verhoeff¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Orofacial Pain and Dysfunction, Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA), University of Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
² Department of Dentistry, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan.
³ Institute of Brain Science, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan.
⁴ Brain Research Center, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan.
⁵ Division of Oral Rehabilitation, Department of Dental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden.
⁶ Academic Center for Geriatric Dentistry, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

Editorial

Frank Lobbezoo et al. J Oral Rehabil. 2024 Nov.

. 2024 Nov;51(11):2498-2499.

doi: 10.1111/joor.13826. Epub 2024 Aug 5.

Frank Lobbezoo¹, Chia-Shu Lin^{2

3

4}, Mats Trulsson^{5

6}, Abhishek Kumar^{5

6}, Merel C Verhoeff¹

¹ Department of Orofacial Pain and Dysfunction, Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA), University of Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
² Department of Dentistry, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan.
³ Institute of Brain Science, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan.
⁴ Brain Research Center, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan.
⁵ Division of Oral Rehabilitation, Department of Dental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden.
⁶ Academic Center for Geriatric Dentistry, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

No abstract available

Keywords: association; bruxism; cerebrovascular circulation; cognition; mastication; masticatory muscles.

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