Previous evidence demonstrates that the incidence of chronic sleep disturbance is high in
patients with temporomandibular joint disorder (TMD). However, there has been little
examination of whether heightened daytime pain sensitivity in this population is associated
with alter sleep architecture at night. We aimed to test the extent to which daytime pain
sensitivity, measured using quantitative sensory testing (QST) is associated with objective
markers of sleep physiology, including sleep architecture and power spectral density bands …