Bruxism movements that occur with seizure disorders (e.g. epilepsy). This usually involves a dental examination, and possibly electroencephalography if a seizure disorder is suspected. Polysomnography shows increased masseter and temporalis muscular activity during sleep. Polysomnography may involve electroencephalography, electromyography, electrocardiography, air flow monitoring and audio–video recording. It may be useful to help exclude other sleep disorders; however, due to the expense of the use of a sleep lab, polysomnography is mostly of relevance to research rather than routine clinical diagnosis of bruxism. Tooth wear may be brought to the person's attention during routine dental examination. With awake bruxism, most people will
Habitual be possible origin of habitual "be". Habitual be Habitual "be" is the use of an uninflected "be" in African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and Caribbean English to mark habitual or extended actions, in place of the Standard English inflected forms of "be", such as "is" and "are". In AAVE, use of "be" indicates that a subject repeatedly does an action or embodies a trait. In Standard English, the use of (an inflection of) "be" merely conveys that an individual has done an action in a particular tense, such as in the statement "She was singing" (the habitual being "she sings"). It