Occlusal risk facts in patients with temporomandibular dysfunction

Authors

  • Isabel Martínez Brito Universidad de Ciencias Médicas "Dr. Juan Guiteras Gener". Matanzas
  • Tomás Toledo Martínez Universidad de Ciencias Médicas "Dr. Juan Guiteras Gener". Matanzas
  • Ana M Prendes Rodríguez Clínica Estomatológica Docente "III Congreso del PCC.Matanzas
  • Tahimí Saborit Carvajal Policlínco Docente "Carlos Verdugo". Matanzas
  • Ariel Delgado Ramos Dirección Nacional de Estadística de Salud
  • José M Morales Rigau Centro Provincial de Higiene y Epidemiología. Matanzas

Keywords:

TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT DISORDERS, MALOCCLUSION, EPIDEMIOLOGY, DESCRIPTIVE, CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES, MODELS, STATISTICAL, HUMANS, CHILD, ADOLESCENT, ADULT

Abstract

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.

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Martínez Brito I, Toledo Martínez T, Prendes Rodríguez AM, Saborit Carvajal T, Delgado Ramos A, Morales Rigau JM. Occlusal risk facts in patients with temporomandibular dysfunction. Rev Méd Electrón [Internet]. 2014 Mar. 10 [cited 2025 Apr. 24];31(6):616-23. Available from: https://revmedicaelectronica.sld.cu/index.php/rme/article/view/683

Issue

Vol. 31 No. 6 (2009)

Section

Research article

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