DISCREPANCY BETWEEN CENTRIC RELATION AND HABITUAL OCCLUSION AND TEMPOROMANDIBULAR DISORDER SYMPTOMS

• Published in: International journal of medical dentistry Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 59 - 65
• Main Authors: Buduru, Smaranda, Almăşan, Oana, Buduru, Rareş, Miţariu, Mihai Ioan, Moroşanu, Mădălina, Flueraşu, Mirela, Constantiniuc, Mariana
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Iasi Apollonia University of Iasi, Medical Dentistry Faculty 01.01.2020
• Subjects: Dentistry; Gender; Muscle pain; Occlusion; Pain; Standard deviation
• ISSN: 2066-6063; 2392-8018

For a precise occlusal analysis of the direction and quantity of discrepancy, an occlusal analysis with articulatormounted casts is imperative [14]. [...]the aim of this study was to assess the relationship between CR occlusion and habitual occlusion discrepancy and TMD symptoms, the spatial planes in which the discrepancy is found and the correlation between gender and muscle pain. 2.MATERIALS AND METHODS The sample consisted of thirty randomly selected 6th year Dental Medicine students, 14 females and 16 males, aged between 20-30 years, who agreed to participate in the study. Muscle pain was found in a higher percentage in females but, due to the limited number of participants, a conclusion regarding the increased prevalence in women could not be established. In sagittal plane, the standard deviation was high, a low correlation coefficient indicating a zero association, which suggests that the sagittal discrepancy is not related to muscle pain. The increased median values of the transversal discrepancy in subjects with pain, and the decreased values in subjects without pain, the low standard deviation and the correlation coefficients show a very good association between muscle pain and transversal discrepancy.