Prevalencia de trastornos temporomandibulares asociado a interferencias oclusales, estudiantes de Clínica Odontológica, semestre A 2017

Abstract

The temporomandibular dysfunction defined as a group of different clinical problems that involved the masticatory muscular complex, the temporomandibular joints are also affected, and sometimes both. Signs and symptoms can appear, the most important and frequent is the articular clicking, with a higher prevalence in the female gender with the 83, 25%, following these symptoms there could be presence of headaches and earache with a higher prevalence in women too. Finally, there are the occlusal interferences, defined as premature and abnormal contact; this type of contact can appear in many of the mandibular movements. Aim: to establish the prevalence of the temporomandibular dysfunction related to the occlusal interferences in the study group. Materials and Methods: the study was performed to 50 dentistry students, each one of them signed an informed consent form and then we proceed to fill the survey which was composed by 7 questions and plaster models anlysis. Results: It was observed that from the 50 evaluated and analyzed students, the bigger sample is constitute by female students with the 74%, while men where represented by the 26%. In addition, the 62% of the sample presented temporomandibular dysfunction, while the 38% didn´t get any symptom of this dysfunction. Conclusion: from the 50 samples it concludes that exist a higher prevalence of temporomandibular dysfunction, having as a usual and common sign the articular clicking.