Prevalence and severity of Temporomandibular disorders signs and symptoms Among Students of The Ahram Canadian University (ACU)

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1 Lecturer, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Dentistry, Ahram Canadian University.

2 Lecturer, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Dentistry, Cairo University.

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Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of temporomandibular disorder (TMD) among students of (Ahram Canadian University).
Methods: Information about the symptoms of TMD and the possible risk factors were collected using specifically designed questionnaires and the collected data sets were treated statistically using the SPSS and chi-square test.
Results: The most reported TMD symptom in this study was masticatory muscles tension, followed by clicking while the least common one was TMJ locking. Nearly two-third of the students (58.9%) had no symptoms of TMD and (41.4%) of the students had TMD symptoms, among them 43.4% had only one symptom and 56.6% had multiple TMD symptoms.
Conclusions: TMD is of a high Prevalence among students of the Ahram Canadian University especially medical colleges students due to high studying stresses that play a big role in the development and\or progression of TMD.

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