Background: Software professionals perform boundary-spanning activities and are always at the fear of job security and cost cut-offs. These characteristics of the software professionals are bound to have massive impact on their healthy living. Many studies have related bruxism with stress. Thus, this study is conducted to know the prevalence of bruxism among software professionals. Aims: To know the prevalence of bruxism among software professionals. Methods: A total of 232 randomly selected software professionals working for NASSCOM registered Bangalore based software companies were considered for the study. A questionnaire was specially developed to know the study subject’s demographic data, self reported bruxism data, details on personal habits and other details. The bruxism was recorded as per the ASDA clinical research diagnostic criteria for bruxism. The data was subjected to statistical analysis. Results: In the study sample, prevalence of bruxism was 35.5% with no difference between genders. Bruxism rarely occurs alone. Conclusion: The prevalence of bruxism in the study population is 35.5%.The results of this study raise an important concern about the prevalence of bruxism among software professionals
