Title

Association of occlusal wear facets in patients with temporomandibular disorders

Authors

Faazila Fathima¹, Sreedevi Dharman²,* & P Senthil Murugan³

Affiliation

¹Saveetha Dental college and hospitals, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Saveetha University, Chennai 77, India; ²Department of Oral Medicine &Radiology, Saveetha Dental College and Hospitals, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences,
Saveetha University, Chennai 77, India; ³Department of Oral Surgery, Saveetha Dental College and Hospitals, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Saveetha University, Chennai 77, India

Email

Sreedevi Dharman – Email.id: sreedevi@saveetha.com

Article Type

Research Article

Date

Received October 7, 2020; Revised October 27, 2020; Accepted October 27, 2020; Published December 31, 2020

Occlusal changes were important factors in temporomandibular disorder (TMD). It is of interest to evaluate the association of occlusal wear facets in TMD patients. We used a dataset of 49 patients with and without TMD for this study. Occlusal wear facets were evaluated using
Smith and Knight tooth wear index. Data shows that teeth wear was present more in patients with TMD (55%). The age group 26-40 years showed high prevalence of teeth wear (grade1) in TMD patients (P value = 0.034). TMD was present more in females than males. Female
(54%) patients with TMD showed more teeth wear compared to males. Most patients with TMD showed posterior teeth wear (61%) than generalized teeth wear. Thus, association was present between occlusal teeth wear and TMD patients especially in the age group of 26-40
years. Hence, proper evaluation of occlusal factors will aid in early diagnosis of TMDs.

Keywords

Bruxism; clenching; occlusal wear; temporomandibular disorder.

Citation

Fathima et al. Bioinformation 16(12): 1060-1068 (2020)

Edited by

P Kangueane

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.