[Temporo-mandibular disorders and family functioning].
OBJECTIVE
To compare family functionality of patients with and without temporomandibular disorders (TMD).


METHODS
A comparative cross-sectional study was conducted with 130 patients attending to a maxillofacial surgery service.


METHODS
patient with or without TMD, age between 18 and 60 years, able to read and write and accepted to participate in the study. We registered sociodemographic variables, and we applied a questionnaire to identify risk factors for TMD, and finally intensity of pain was measure by a visual analogous scale. All patients were clinically evaluated to ascertain TMD according to the research diagnostic criteria for TMD proposed by Dworkin in 1992. The Family Adaptability and Cohesion Scale III (FACES-III) was used to evaluate family functionality.


RESULTS
The mean of age was 34 +/- 10 years, ratio women : men, was 2 : 1; 67.7% were married or had a partner; the mean of education was 14 +/- 3.5 years; 56 % of women had TMD; 67.6 % had familiar dysfunction.


CONCLUSIONS
Families of patients with TMD were dysfunctional more frequently and this suggests a relation.
Quinteromarmol-Juárez
Myriam
M
Facultad de Estomatología, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla.
Espinosa-de Santillana
Irene Aurora
IA
Martínez-Torres
Jorge
J
Vargas-García
Hugo Alberto
HA
D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005195:Family Relations; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013705:Temporomandibular Joint Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*