Prevalence and severity of Temporomandibular disorders signs and symptoms Among Students of The Ahram Canadian University (ACU)
Rashed, S., Elsharkawy, A. (2018). Prevalence and severity of Temporomandibular disorders signs and symptoms Among Students of The Ahram Canadian University (ACU). EKB Journal Management System, 64(Issue 3 - July (Oral Surgery)), 2097-2104. doi: 10.21608/edj.2018.76760
Sayed A. Rashed; Ahmed T. Elsharkawy. "Prevalence and severity of Temporomandibular disorders signs and symptoms Among Students of The Ahram Canadian University (ACU)". EKB Journal Management System, 64, Issue 3 - July (Oral Surgery), 2018, 2097-2104. doi: 10.21608/edj.2018.76760
Rashed, S., Elsharkawy, A. (2018). 'Prevalence and severity of Temporomandibular disorders signs and symptoms Among Students of The Ahram Canadian University (ACU)', EKB Journal Management System, 64(Issue 3 - July (Oral Surgery)), pp. 2097-2104. doi: 10.21608/edj.2018.76760
Rashed, S., Elsharkawy, A. Prevalence and severity of Temporomandibular disorders signs and symptoms Among Students of The Ahram Canadian University (ACU). EKB Journal Management System, 2018; 64(Issue 3 - July (Oral Surgery)): 2097-2104. doi: 10.21608/edj.2018.76760

Prevalence and severity of Temporomandibular disorders signs and symptoms Among Students of The Ahram Canadian University (ACU)

Egyptian Dental Journal
Article 10, Volume 64, Issue 3 - July (Oral Surgery), July 2018, Page 2097-2104  XML PDF (691.32 K)
Document Type: Original Article
DOI: 10.21608/edj.2018.76760
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Authors
Sayed A. Rashed1; Ahmed T. Elsharkawy2
1Lecturer, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Dentistry, Ahram Canadian University.
2Lecturer, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Dentistry, Cairo University.
Abstract
Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of temporomandibular disorder (TMD) among students of (Ahram Canadian University).
Methods: Information about the symptoms of TMD and the possible risk factors were collected using specifically designed questionnaires and the collected data sets were treated statistically using the SPSS and chi-square test.
Results: The most reported TMD symptom in this study was masticatory muscles tension, followed by clicking while the least common one was TMJ locking. Nearly two-third of the students (58.9%) had no symptoms of TMD and (41.4%) of the students had TMD symptoms, among them 43.4% had only one symptom and 56.6% had multiple TMD symptoms.
Conclusions: TMD is of a high Prevalence among students of the Ahram Canadian University especially medical colleges students due to high studying stresses that play a big role in the development and\or progression of TMD.
Keywords
(TMD). (MPDS)
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