Prevalence of diagnosed temporomandibular disorders among Saudi Arabian children and adolescents

• Published in: Journal of headache and pain Vol. 17; no. 1; p. 41
• Main Authors: Al-Khotani, Amal, Naimi-Akbar, Aron, Albadawi, Emad, Ernberg, Malin, Hedenberg-Magnusson, Britt, Christidis, Nikolaos
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Milan Springer Milan 22.04.2016; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adolescent; Child; Children & youth; Cross-Sectional Studies; Face; Facial Pain - diagnosis; Facial Pain - epidemiology; Female; Headache - diagnosis; Headache - epidemiology; Humans; Internal Medicine; Male; Medical disorders; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Neurology; Pain Medicine; Prevalence; Research Article; Saudi Arabia - epidemiology; Studies; Temporomandibular Joint Disorders - diagnosis; Temporomandibular Joint Disorders - epidemiology; Saudi Arabia; Temporomandibular disorders; RDC/TMD; Prevalence; Children; Adolescents

Background Studies have indicated that the prevalence of symptoms and signs of temporomandibular disorders (TMD) are rare early in childhood, but become more prevalent in adolescents and adulthood. To our knowledge, no study has investigated the prevalence of TMD-diagnoses in children in the general...