Oral surgery, oral medicine, oral pathology, oral radiology, and endodontics
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Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol Endod · Oct 2011
ReviewResearch diagnostic criteria for temporomandibular disorders: a systematic review of axis I epidemiologic findings.
The aim of this study was to summarize and systematically review the literature on the prevalence of different research diagnostic criteria for temporomandibular disorders (RDC/TMD) version 1.0 axis I diagnoses in patient and in the general populations. ⋯ Prevalence reports were highly variable across studies. Myofascial pain with or without mouth opening limitation was the commonest diagnosis in TMD patient populations, and disc displacement with reduction was the commonest diagnosis in community samples.