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Atención Dental para Enfermos Crónicos , Trastornos Relacionados con Sustancias , Humanos , Anamnesis , Enfermedades de la Boca/terapia , Salud Bucal , Planificación de Atención al Paciente , Grupo de Atención al Paciente , Trastornos Relacionados con Sustancias/diagnóstico , Trastornos Relacionados con Sustancias/fisiopatología , Enfermedades Dentales/terapiaRESUMEN
Linear mouth opening is often used to assess the limitation of mandibular movement. However, this has a number of limitations. It is dependent on variables such as age, gender and ramus length. A new measure of movement has been developed previously, called the temporomandibular opening index (TOI). Forty-two subjects who did not exhibit signs and symptoms of temporomandibular disorder (TMD) were recruited to this study. The relationship of age, gender, gonial angle, ramus length and the TOI was studied. Linear regression analysis showed that the TOI was not dependent on gender (P > 0.644), gonial angle (P > 0.327), ramus length (P > 0.248) and age (P > 0.690). The index may therefore be a better measure of mandibular movement.
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Trastornos de la Articulación Temporomandibular/diagnóstico por imagen , Articulación Temporomandibular/diagnóstico por imagen , Articulación Temporomandibular/fisiología , Adolescente , Adulto , Anciano , Envejecimiento , Femenino , Identidad de Género , Humanos , Procesamiento de Imagen Asistido por Computador , Modelos Lineales , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Movimiento/fisiología , Radiografía , Valores de Referencia , Articulación Temporomandibular/fisiopatología , Trastornos de la Articulación Temporomandibular/fisiopatologíaRESUMEN
Eighty-nine patients who complained of temporomandibular disorders were examined using a short and long examination procedure. Seventy were females and 19 males. Mean age of the group was 31.53 years, with a range from 11 to 73 years. The agreement between the two examination procedures was tested using the Kappa statistic. This gave a value of 0.876 (P<0.001). This allowed rejection of the hypothesis that the agreement found between the two procedures was due to chance alone.