Abstract

MONCADA ESCORCIA, R.A. et al. Influence of the third retdined molars in patients with problems in the temporomandibular joint in the Madrid hospital. Av Odontoestomatol [online]. 2009, vol.25, n.1, pp.35-40. ISSN 2340-3152.

The aim of this study has been to analyze a patients sample that came to the Hospital of Madrid, with the temporomandibular joint disorders with of the third included molars, comparing them with another population group with temporomandibular joint disorders without the presence of the same ones. Materials and Methodology: Our study was based on the compilation and analysis of information of 60 case histories, of patients with diagnosis temporomandibular joint disorders attended in the Hospital of Madrid divided into two groups with presence or not of third included molars, to the above mentioned groups realized them a comparative study of the variables used in the study: page, sex, presence or not of pain in the TMJ, noises in the TMJ and decrease of the maximum mouth opening. Results: there was realized a descriptive and comparative study of the variables sex, age, Presence or absence of pain in ATM, Noises in ATM and Maximum oral opening finding major number of cases in the feminine sex, the average of the ages they range between 40 years, as for variable pain in the ATM was increased in the patients of the group A, with (43.33%)with regard to those of the group B, (38.33%) and variables noises in ATM and Maximum mouth opening were lightly in the patients of the group A.

Keywords : Temporomandibular joint; temporomandibular dysfunction; third included molars.

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