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The temporomandibular joints disorders in patients with osteoporosis
BACKGROUND: Osteoporosis is a skeletal and progressive behavioral disease with physically and psychologically significant consequences. AIMS OF THE STUDY: Evaluate the presence and effects of Temporomandibular Joints Disorders in osteoporotic patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Fifty-eight (58) patient...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8491341/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34703137 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-029X.325254 |
Sumario: | BACKGROUND: Osteoporosis is a skeletal and progressive behavioral disease with physically and psychologically significant consequences. AIMS OF THE STUDY: Evaluate the presence and effects of Temporomandibular Joints Disorders in osteoporotic patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Fifty-eight (58) patients with osteoporosis participated in this study as they were already diagnosed by Rheumatologists, physical and sport Rehabilitation physicians in Merjan Medical city/Babylon – Iraq between period February and August 2019. RESULTS: Twenty-seven (27) patients with T. M. J clicking as anterior disk displacements, Seventeen (17) patients with spasm in muscles of mastication, and then finally Fourteen (14) out of 58 patients with subluxation and dislocation. CONCLUSIONS: Osteoporosis can have a significant impact on oral health. |
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