View clinical trials related to Temporomandibular Disorder.
Filter by:The aim of the study is assessing the effect of the stabilization splint (SS) thickness on the temporomandibular disorder's and their symptoms; such as muscle or temporomandibular joint (TMJ) pain, TMJ sounds, and limitation of mouth opening.
Purpose: To determine the prevalence of temporomandibular disorders (TMD) in female healthcare students and to assess its association with oral parafunctions, neck pain and function. Methods: Female medical students will be included in the study on a voluntary basis using stratified sampling method according to the department they were being educated. The presence and severity of TMD will be assessed with the Fonseca's Anamnestic Index (FAI). The oral parafunctions will be self-reported with the Oral Behavior Checklist (OBC). The neck pain and function will be recorded with the Core Outcome Measure Index (COMI). A Chi-square test and Spearman correlation analysis will used for statistical analysis.
Temporomandibular disorders (TMD) are defined by pain in the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) and related tissues, limitations in the movements of the lower jaw, and TMJ noises.1,2 TMD are classified into four groups as temporomandibular joint disorders, masticatory muscle disorders, headache attributed to TMD and associated structures.3,4 Of these, masticatory muscle disorders are the most common TMD subtype seen in dental clinics.5-7 In general, two major symptoms are seen associated with masticatory muscle disorders: Pain and dysfunction. Pain is the vast majority of complaints about masticatory muscle disorders. The other important complaint is dysfunction, which occurs as a limitation in the opening range of the mandible.8 It is known that individuals with experimental muscle pain are slower than healthy individuals when biting hard food and show lower maximum voluntary clenching capacity.9 Also, it has been reported that the maximum bite force decreased in patients with temporomandibular disorders.10 These consequences directly affect patients' quality of life. Therefore, rehabilitation of limited masticatory functions is one of the important therapeutic goals for TMD patients.11 In TMD patients, masticatory functions can be measured objectively with bite force, bite force endurance, electromyography, and jaw kinematics, etc. Another objective method that can be used to determine masticatory functions is the masticatory efficiency test. In the literature, there are few studies that measure masticatory efficiency in TMD patients.12-16 Only two of these studies investigated the effect of TMD treatment and used the sieve method to measure masticatory efficiency.15,16 Although the sieve method is considered the gold standard, the procedure is complex and time consuming.17,18 To eliminate these disadvantages, masticatory efficiency measurement with two-color chewing gum tests which are simple and do not require special equipment or training can be used. The effect of many different conditions and treatments on masticatory efficiency was evaluated with this method.19 However, to our knowledge, there is no study in the literature evaluating TMD treatment with this method. The aim of this study was to compare the masticatory efficiency with a two-color chewing gum test before and after treatment of the masticatory muscle-related temporomandibular disorder.
patients with chronic refractory temporomandibular dysfunction were prescribed home exercise and were followed for 6 months. Pain , mouth opening and Fonseca's were done at day 1 and after 6 months of the study.
Background Chronic temporomandibular disorders (TMD) pain is an undertreated condition in Sweden despite the fact that national guidelines includes effective treatment options. These guidelines recommend multimodal treatment with a behavioral approach. Internet-based intervention is an appealing modality for multimodal TMD treatment, enabling more patients to be reached and treated. Objective To investigate the treatment effect of an internet-based multimodal pain program (iMPP) on chronic TMD pain. As the study progressed, it also became a measure to evaluate the feasibility of running a larger randomized controlled trial.
The aim of this study is to investigate the efficacy of different types of physiotherapy approaches in cases with cervical myofascial painful TMD.
The aim of the study was to evaluate any relation between elongated styloid process (ESP) and type of Temporomandibular Joint Disorders (TMD).
The aim of the present investigation was to perform the content and construct validation of the diagnostic criteria for TMD (DC/TMD) Axis I, for children 7 to 11 years old. A Delphi process was used to perfom the content validity of the DC/TMD Axis I. 189 7-11 years old children were assessed with the adapted instrument. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to investigate construct validity of the DC/TMD for children. A baseline one-factor model was compared against a two-factor (Model 2) and a seven-factor (Model 3) models based on the original DC/TMD. Root-mean-squared error of approximation (RMSEA), comparative fit index (CFI), chi-square, change in chi-square and Cronbach's Alpha were used to analyze the data. All analysis were performed in STATA© version 13.0.
The purpose of the study is to investigate whether a questionnaire can be used to detect whether patients referred to the Danish Headache Center have a painful temporomandibular disorder (TMD). TMD is a major public health problem that affects up to 15% of the adult population and can cause headaches that can be immediately difficult to differentiate from other headache types such as tension headaches and migraines. By applying the so-called diagnostic criteria for TMD through a standardized study program, TMD diseases such as myalgia of the jaw muscles, arthralgia and discus displacements of the jaw joints and jaw arthritis can be diagnosed. However, this requires dental expertise and is time consuming. At the Danish Headache Center, the current screening question is used for TMD in order to identify who could benefit from further investigation in dentistry. But it is still unknown how accurate these questions are in selecting those patients who have TMD diseases in a patient group with a headache. The investigators would like to investigate this in order to improve the referral procedure of headache patients for relevant dental treatment or physiotherapy. This is believed to be of importance both in a specialized unit such as the Danish Headache Center and in neurological medical practice. Patients will be recruited who are referred to the Danish Headache Center, who have been given TMD screening questions and who have indicated in writing that they wish to be contacted for research projects. In the study, 25 subjects with TMD screening question score of ≥ 3 points will be included, which will be gender and age matched with 25 subjects who have TMD screening question score of <3 points. The patients will be interviewed to classify the patients headache 15 min and then have a jaw examination done and then the DC / TMD examination will be done and lasts approx. 30 min. The examination is performed by a skilled physiotherapist and it does not involve any side effects or risks.
Temporomandibular disorders (TMD) have multiple and broad clinical effects on orofacial structures and are often diagnosed in patients with a prevalence of between 5% and 12%. Among treatment options, massage therapy is one of the common therapeutic procedures and allows interesting clinical outcomes by reducing TMD symptoms successfully. However, there has been no attempt to validate this knowledge. Thus, the aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of massage and its properties in patients with TMD.