Abstract

CABALLERO GOMEZ, María de la Caridad; SEGUI CARMENATES, Gisell; HIDALGO PACHECO, Agustín  and  ALTUNAGA CARBONELL, Ana. Temporomandibular dysfunction pain syndrome in patients who have abandoned the orthodontic treatment. AMC [online]. 2014, vol.18, n.6, pp. 609-620. ISSN 1025-0255.

Background: nowadays quitting a treatment has become very common in Orthodontics; a great part of the patients who quit had undergone therapeutic extractions, which combined with other psychogenetic factors can give place to the appearance of temporomandibular dysfunction pain syndrome. Objective: to determine the prevalence of temporomandibular dysfunction pain syndrome in patients who have abandoned the orthodontic treatment. Method: a cross-sectional, analytical study was conducted in La Vigia Teaching Stomatological Clinic, Camagüey, from March 2012 to March 2013. The universe was composed of 160 patients that came to the orthodontic service during the year 2009; the sample was composed of 45 patients who had quit the treatment and matched the previously established inclusion criteria. The Helkimo test was made to these patients. Results: the 40 % of the examined patients presented temporomandibular dysfunction pain syndrome; the 72, 2 % of them had undergone therapeutic extractions and the 50 % had previously had an orthodontic fixed appliance. Conclusions: a considerable number of patients that quit the orthodontic treatment presented temporomandibular dysfunction pain syndrome in spite of being apparently asymptomatic.

Keywords : TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT DYSFUNCTION SÍNDROME; PATIENT DROPOUTS; ORTHODONTICS; TOOTH EXTRACTION; ADULT.

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