Abstract

MARTINEZ BRITO, Isabel et al. Occlusal risk facts in patients with temporomandibular dysfunction. Rev. Med. Electrón. [online]. 2009, vol.31, n.6, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1684-1824.

The aetiology of temporomandibular disorders is complex and still unsolved. Among the possible risk facts are dental malocclusions precisely because of the variations they present. Occasionally, big structural discrepancies might provoke functional disturbances, with a tendency to get more serious when they coexist with other risk facts. The object of the current, descriptive and transversal study was identifying risk facts like dental malocclusions, and some specific characteristics like overjet and overpass in a 7-to-44 years-old population with temporomandibular dysfunction. They were investigated in schools of the municipality of Matanzas, applying a multistage, probabilistic method to select a sample of 1 866 persons. The Krogh Paulsen Test was used to diagnose the dysfunction. 72 % of the patients affected with temporomandibular dysfunctions had dental malocclusions; 40.9 % overjet and 37.8 % overpassing, finding an increase of them with age.

Keywords : TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT DISORDERS [epidemiology]; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT DISORDERS [etiology]; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT DISORDERS [diagnosis]; MALOCCLUSION [complications]; EPIDEMIOLOGY, DESCRIPTIVE ; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES ; MODELS, STATISTICAL ; HUMANS; CHILD; ADOLESCENT ; ADULT.

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