Prevalence of Temporomandibular Disorders According to RDC/TMD in Older People of Santiago, Chile

Isbel Sandoval; Nicole Ibarra; Guillermo Flores; Katina Marinkovic; Walter Díaz & Fernando Romo

Summary

In Chilean population, elders represent a 13% of the overall population (2.2 million), projected for 2020 an increase of 45%, from the group of 60 and over. All humans undergo a process of aging. Oral and perioral tissues do not escape from this process, whose impact on the condyle and articular disc could be observed, in the presence of symptoms consistent with temporomandibular disorders (TMD). The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of TMD according to the Research Diagnostic Criteria or RDC/TMD (Axis I), in older adults examined at the Dental Clinic of the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Chile during 2012, and establish the relationship between the sexes. In conclusion, this study found that there is a high prevalence of TMD in Chilean elderly sample studied (47%), mainly articular diagnoses without a statistically significant relationship between the sexes.

KEY WORDS: elders, temporomandibular disorders, RDC/TMD.

How to cite this article

SANDOVAL, I.; IBARRA, N.; FLORES, G.; MARINKOVIC, K.; DÍAZ, W. & ROMO, F. Prevalence of temporomandibular disorders according to RDC/TMD in older people of Santiago, Chile. Int. J. Odontostomat., 9(1):73-78, 2015.