Bruxism even orthognathic surgery. Some have criticized these occlusal reorganizations as having no evidence base, and irreversibly damaging the dentition on top of the damage already caused by bruxism. There is a wide variation in reported epidemiologic data for bruxism, and this is largely due to differences in the definition, diagnosis and research methodologies of these studies. E.g. several studies use self-reported bruxism as a measure of bruxism, and since many people with bruxism are not aware of their habit, self-reported tooth grinding and clenching habits may be a poor measure of the true prevalence. The ICSD-R states that 85–90% of
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