Unlabelled: Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) is a group of disorders associated with breathing anomalies during sleep. Easily detectable by sound, snoring is one of the most common manifestations and the main sign of SDB. Snoring is characteristic of breathing sound during sleep, without apnea, hypoventilation, or interrupted sleep.
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January 2024
Objective: To describe postural alterations according to the type of temporomandibular disorder (TMD).
Methods: Prior informed consent, 30 patients were included in the study, with a mean age of 27.4 years; 80% women, diagnosed with TMD based on Diagnostic Criteria (DC/ TTM) by a trained researcher in the clinic of the Faculty of Stomatology of the BUAP.
To analyze the association between mandibular vertical asymmetry and the presence of TMD in adult patients. This case-control study recruited patients from the orthodontic clinic at FEBUAP. Patients were classified on the basis of diagnostic criteria for temporomandibular disorders (DC/TMD).
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December 2015
Objective To determine the association between craniofacial structures and the presence of TMD in adolescents. Material and Methods Cases-control study. 46 patients aged 10 to 16 years old were evaluated with their respective lateral cephalometric X-rays (23 cases and 23 controls matched for age and sex).
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April 2015
Objective To determine and compare with reports in the bibliography, the prevalence of temporomandibular disorders with an instrument validated for Mexican children with mixed dentition. Methods 150 children, from 8 to 12 years of age and of any sex who attended the pediatric stomatology clinic of the BUAP (Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla) were included and evaluated with the diagnostic criteria for research on TTM (CDI/TTM) by a researcher who had been previously standardized (kappa=0.93).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: This study was aimed at determining periodontal treatment needs, as determined by the Community Periodontal Index of Treatment Need (CPITN), in a sample of adults from the Mixteca region of the State of Puebla, in Mexico.
Materials And Methods: This was a descriptive, cross-sectional, single-centre study. Previous informed consent was obtained; 60.
Objective: to describe the dental characteristics of patients with temporomandibular disorders (TMD).
Methods: a survey in 130 out patients from a Clinic of Maxilofacial Surgery Service, who fulfilled the selection criteria. The social and demographic data were reported in other paper.
Rev Med Inst Mex Seguro Soc
April 2009
Objective: To compare family functionality of patients with and without temporomandibular disorders (TMD).
Methods: A comparative cross-sectional study was conducted with 130 patients attending to a maxillofacial surgery service.
Selection Criteria: patient with or without TMD, age between 18 and 60 years, able to read and write and accepted to participate in the study.