مؤلف: Peter A. Cistulli

Gilles J. Lavigne, DMD, MSc, Ph D, FRCD(C) (Oral medicine), is a Canada Research Chair in Pain, Sleep, and Trauma; dean and professor of dentistry at the University of Montreal; and director of the Trauma Research Axis at Montreal Sacré Coeur Hospital. Dr Lavigne completed postdoctoral training in neurobiology of pain at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, and is internationally recognized for his experimental and clinical research on sleep bruxism and the interaction of sleep, pain, and breathing disorders. He is co-editor of two textbooks, Sleep and Pain (IASP, 2007) and Orofacial Pain, second edition (Quintessence, 2008).