Abstract
This paper is dedicated to the improvement of diagnosis quality of combined forms of temporomandibular disorders (TMD) by means of characteristic of their structure. In research, the combination varieties of TMD different forms were determined and analyzed due to the examination results of 114 patients and peculiarities of disorders’ distribution taking into account the patients’gender were studied. The percentage of patients with a combination of different forms of TMD made up (51.8+4.7)%, i.e., every second TMD patient was subjected to the course of several different disorders simultaneously. Among them the percentage of women – (88.1±4.2) %, men– (11.9±4.2) %, the women/men ratio was equal to 7.4:1.0 correspondingly. Among the varieties of a combination of different forms of TMD, the percentage of the option «muscular disorder + TMJ internal disorder» was (37.3±6.3) %, «muscular disorder + arthritis» – (33.9±6.2) %, other options of combined disorders were (28.8±5.7) %. The obtained results point to the necessity of primary consideration on the symptoms reveal of TMJ internal disorders and muscular disorders that combine most frequently, when performing differential diagnosis.
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