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Frequency and distribution of Myofascial Pain‐Dysfunction Syndrome in a population of 25‐year‐olds
Author(s) -
Helöe Berit,
Helöe Leif Arne
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
community dentistry and oral epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.061
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1600-0528
pISSN - 0301-5661
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0528.1979.tb01248.x
Subject(s) - medicine , physical therapy , population , myofascial pain , demography , environmental health , sociology
Interviews on the occurrence of Myofascial Pain‐Dysfunction (MPD) Syndrome were held with a group consisting of 246 individuals 25 years of age. Every fifth interviewee said she/he had experienced clicking/crepitation from the TMJs. Five percent had felt pain when opening the mouth wide and 3% while chewing, yawning or talking. These frequencies of symptoms were much like those found in a probability sample of the total adult population in Norway and a probability sample of elderly Norwegians. In the present study, 28% said they had some or much headache recently. These symptoms varied with background characteristics, especially with sex. There was also a relationship between headache and MPD‐sympioms. By combining the effect of the variables sex and headache upon the frequency of reported clicking/crepitation, it was tripled.