Research diagnostic criteria for temporomandibular disorders for evaluating axis diagnosis of TMD patients in China
CHEN Wei-sheng
ZHENG You-hua
LIN Xue-feng
Abstract：Objective To assess the axisⅡdiagnosis of TMD patients in China who seek treatment for TMD using Re-search Diagnostic Criteria for TMD(RDC/TMD). Methods Clinical data of the TMD patients were collected using the RDC/TMD. Results A total of 142 TMD patients were surveyed and examined clinically. There were 133 valid scales involving 9 with missing data. There were 38 men and 95 women with the ratio of 1:2.5. Patients suffered from TMD were commonly seen at the age between 18 and 44,and 67.7%of TMD patients received college education;the income of 84.2% TMD patients were below 5000yuan. The axis diagnosis indicated that there were psychological distress and psychosocial dysfunction in TMD patients with no statistical significance among different demography situation (P >0.05). The TMD patients’depressive symptoms were clearly associated with widespread non-specific physical symptoms even when pain items were excluded from the calculation to reduce the effects of pain co-morbidity(P<0.05).Conclu-sion There are psychological distress and psychosocial dysfunction in TMD patients. The TMD patients’depressive symptoms are clearly associated with widespread non-speci fi c physical symptoms even when pain items are excluded from the calculation to reduce the effects of pain co-morbidity.
Keywords：temporomandibular disordersresearch Diagnostic Criteria for Temporomandibular Disor-dersaxisⅡclinical assessment
Publication Date：2013-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 523-526 )