The clinical evaluation of the temporomandibular joint disorders
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The clinical evaluation of 559 patients with temporomandibular joint disorders, who visited our clinic from January 1979 to December 1988, was made. Mean percentage of these patients during past ten years was 5.8%, and they tend to visit our clinic increasingly year by year. The patients consisted of 152 males and 407 females, and the ratio of male to female was about 1:2.7. Distribution of age groups had two peaks in twenties and fifties. 34.0% of the patients complained of both temporomandibular joint and difficulty in mouth opening at the first vesit. 86.4% of the patients experienced temporomandibular joint pain, 56.7% difficulty in mouth opening, and 45.1% temporomandibular joint noise, respectively. Frequencies of the individual types according to the proposal classification of Japanese society for temporomandibular joint disorders (1986), were 24.7% for Type I, 18.4% for Type II, 47.6% for Type III, 7.8% for Type IV and 1.5% for Type V, respectively. Treatments consisted of dental splints (53.3%), medication (34.7%), training of mandibular movement, tooth extraction, orthodontic therapy and others. One of these treatments was applied in 42.9% of the cases, two treatments in 37.6% and three or more treatments in 14.5%, respectively. Complete recover was observed in 34.0% of the patients, unchanged symptoms were in 3.9% and discontinuance of the treatment in 62.1%, Questionnaires were sent to 486 patients, who have been treated from 1979 to 1987, and 39.9% of patients replied. Among ther, 41.8% of the patients was considered to be cured.
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