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Journal of Oral & Facial Pain and Headache (OFPH) is published by MRE Press from Volume 38 lssue 1 (2024). Previous articles were published by another publisher on a subscription basis, and they are hosted by MRE Press on www.jofph.com as a courtesy and upon agreement with Journal of Oral & Facial Pain and Headache.

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TMDT reatment Need in Relation to Age, Gender, Stress, and Diagnostic Subgroup

  • Marjaana Kuttila1,*,
  • Paivi M. Niemi2
  • Seppo Kuttila3
  • Pentti Alanen4
  • Yrsa Le Bell5

1Specialist in Clinical Dentistry, Otonhammas, Jyvaskyla, Finland

2Department of Psychiatry, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

3Specialist in Otorhinolaryngology, Otonhammas, Jyvaskyla, Finland

4Professor in Community Dentistry, Inst itute of Dentistry, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

5Graduate Program in Clinical Dentistry, Institute of Dentistry, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

DOI: 10.11607/jofph.1267 Vol.12,Issue 1,March 1998 pp.67-74

Published: 30 March 1998

*Corresponding Author(s): Marjaana Kuttila E-mail: Marjaana.Kuttila@utu.fi

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Abstract

Associations between treatment need for temporomandibular disorders (TMD) and age, gender, stress, and diagnostic subgroup were analyzed in ad adult Finnish population sample of 506 subjects. When analyzed separately, the association between TMD treatment need and all the studied factors was statistically significant. This finding is in accordance with earlier results. When the studied factors were included into an explanatory model, however, the picture changed. The logistic regression analysis revealed that diagnostic subgroup was the strongest predictor for the TMD treatment need. Total stress score significantly added to the explanatory power of the model, but age and gender did not. The commonplace observation that women show more signs and symptoms of TMD see ms to be explainable by their higher stress scores and by the type of symptoms.

Keywords

treatment need; diagnostic grouping; stress; age; gender

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Marjaana Kuttila, Paivi M. Niemi, Seppo Kuttila, Pentti Alanen, Yrsa Le Bell. TMDT reatment Need in Relation to Age, Gender, Stress, and Diagnostic Subgroup. Journal of Oral & Facial Pain and Headache. 1998. 12(1);67-74.

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