Clinical predictors of persistent temporomandibular disorder in people with first-onset temporomandibular disorder: A prospective case-control study.

CONCLUSIONS: Clinical measures that clinicians can assess readily when TMD first develops are useful in predicting the risk of developing persistent TMD. Psychosocial measures are important predictors of onset but do not add meaningfully to the predictive capacity of clinical measures. PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS: When TMD first develops, clinicians usefully can identify patients at higher risk of developing persistence by using clinical measures that they logically also could use in treatment planning and for monitoring outcomes of intervention. PMID: 31248483 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Journal of the American Dental Association - Category: Dentistry Tags: J Am Dent Assoc Source Type: research