Prevalence of temporomandibular joint dysfunction and its signs among the partially edentulous patients in a village of North Gujarat.

Unlabelled: There is disagreement about the association between missing teeth and the presence of temporomandibular disorder (TMD).

Aim: To investigate whether, the span of edentulousness, gender, number of quadrants involved, pathological migration and the type of kennedy's classification are related to the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) dysfunction signs.

Materials And Methods: Clinical examination of 250 patients (males 99 and females 151) was done among the age group of 35 to 45 years.