Prevalence of the Different Axis I Clinical Subtypes in a Sample of Patients with Orofacial Pain and Temporomandibular Disorders in the Andalusian Healthcare Service

Overview

Journal Med Oral Patol Oral Cir Bucal

Specialty Dentistry

Date 2015 Nov 30

PMID 26615508

Citations 5

Authors

Antonio Blanco-Hungria

Antonio Blanco-Aguilera

Elena Blanco-Aguilera

Rafael Serrano-Del-Rosal

Lourdes Biedma-Velazquez

Alejandro Rodriguez-Torronteras

Rafael Segura-Saint-Gerons

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Abstract

Background: The main objective of this paper is to analyze the prevalence of each of the different clinical subtypes of temporomandibular disorders (TMD) in a sample of patients with this pathology. In addition, a second objective was to analyze their distribution according to gender.

Material And Methods: To this end, the results of 1603 patients who went to the Unit of Temporomandibular Disorders in the Córdoba Healthcare District because they suffered from this pathology were analyzed. In order to diagnose them, the Research Diagnostic Criteria for Temporomandibular Disorders (RDC/TMD) were applied, analyzing the different Axis I subtypes (myopathy, discopathy and arthropathy) and obtaining the combined Axis I for each patient and the relation of all these variables according to gender. The null-hypothesis test confirmed the lack of connection between the gender variable and the different subtypes in the clinical analysis, and between the former and the combined Axis I of the RDC/TMD.

Results: The prevalence was high for the muscle disorders subtype in general, showing an 88.7% prevalence, while the presence of discopathies or arthropathies was much lower. Among discopathies, the most frequent ones were disc displacements with reduction, with 39.7% and 42.8% for the left and right temporomandibular joints (TMJ), respectively, while the prevalence of arthropathies was 26.3% for the right TMJ and 32.9% for the left TMJ. The bivariate analysis on the connection with gender reveals a p≥ 0.05 value for the muscle and arthralgia subtypes.

Conclusions: The patients seen at the TMD Unit where mostly middle-aged women whose main clinical axis subtype was the muscle disorder subtype. For their part, both discopathies and arthropathies, although present, are much less prevalent.

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