Abstract

CORONA CARPIO, Marcia Hortensia; CHAVEZ GONZALEZ, Zulema; DUQUE DE ESTRADA BERTOT, María Luisa  and  DUHARTE ESCALANTE, Ana. Clinical characterization of partially edentulous patients with articular dysfunctions. MEDISAN [online]. 2015, vol.19, n.4, pp. 456-461. ISSN 1029-3019.

A descriptive and cross-sectional study of 374 partially edentulous patients with mandibular dysfunction who assisted the Stomatological Prosthesis Service from "Mártires del Moncada" Teaching Provincial Stomatological Clinic in Santiago de Cuba was carried out from October, 2013 to the same month of 2014, to determine the presence of articular sounds in their temporomandibular joints. Among the main results there were the female sex, the age group 20-29 and as clinical manifestations of articular dysfunction: the articular sound in crack form at the beginning and end of the oral opening (51.6 and 38.7%, respectively), as well as the mandibular deviation (42.4%)

Keywords : partially edentulous; articular sound; mandibular dysfunction; temporomandibular joint; stomatology.

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