Abstract

ALGOZAIN ACOSTA, Yudit; VINAS GARCIA, Mileydis; CAPOTE LEYVA, Eliseo  and  RODRIGUEZ LLANES, Ricardo. Clinical behavior of the dysfunction pain temporomandibular joint syndrome assessed in a Stomatology emergence consultation. Rev Cubana Estomatol [online]. 2009, vol.46, n.2, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-297X.

Introduction: Dysfunction pain temporomandibular joint syndrome (DPTJS) includes signs and symptoms as a result of quantitative and qualitative alterations of the masticatory tract component function. Is frequently present and annoying for patient, thus we made this study to clinically characterize it. Methods: We made a cross-sectional, descriptive and prospective study of patients seen in Emergence Service of Stomatology Clinic in Artemisa municipality from July, 2007 and March, 2008 diagnosing DPTJS. Results: From the total of patients seen only the 1,1% was diagnosed with DPTJS. The more frequent age-interval was that of 22-59 years, mastication pain, and the articulation noise were the more frequent syndrome, respectively. As major risk factors we identified the stress and the bruxism. More than 67% of patients were of female sex with the greatest syndrome frequency. Conclusions: Population from Artemisa municipality had a low incidence of DPTJS in Stomatology emergence consultations; there was a significant statistically association between female sex and appearance of this syndrome where stress plays a mayor role.

Keywords : Dysfunction pain temporomandibular joint syndrome; temporomandibular disorders; temporomandibular joint; incidence.

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