Jaw Tremor Resulting in Broken Teeth: On the Essential Tremor Spectrum

Tremor Other Hyperkinet Mov (N Y). 2015 Nov 2:5:354. doi: 10.7916/D8T15339. eCollection 2015.

¹ Department of Neurology, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
² Department of Neurology, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA ; Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA ; Center for Neuroepidemiology and Clinical Neurological Research, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.

Abstract

Background: Jaw tremors in essential tremor (ET) rarely represent anything other than a cosmetic concern.

Phenomenology shown: A case of an ET patient whose jaw tremor was severe enough to result in cracked teeth.

Educational value: It behooves treating clinicians to be aware of the full spectrum of this movement disorder.

Keywords: Essential tremor; clinical; jaw tremor; teeth.