Author:
Emad Hammody Abdullah
Page: 1-5
Published online: 01 Mar 2025
https://doi.org/acejsurg.2023.1.5
The multiplex etiology, wide period, collection of manifestations, the reasons for the importance of the epidemiology of TMDs and the understanding of it, addition to management requires, need numerous diagnostic and therapeutic procedure to diminish the signs and symptoms. An early diagnosis and management are of great benefit. The study aims to assess the prevalence of TMD among students at the Faculty of Dentistry in Baghdad. This study involve 365 undergraduate students from Ibn Sina University of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences?College of Dentistry in Baghdad, Iraq. The study started from January 2020 and end into May 2022. From The 365 precipitants there were 125 (34.2%) male students and 240 (65.8%) females, the students ages ranged (18?24) years. Standard questionnaire?based study is used with fonseca anamnestic rate index. In This study from the total number of 350 students, 59 (16%) were with no Tempera?mandibular disorders (TMDs), About 170 (46.6%) of the participants had Mild TMD, the Moderate TMD found in 102 (28%) students and 34 (9.4%) had Severe TMD problems, It is clear that subjects classified as mild TMD (46.6%) was significantly the higher than the other groups in their results, From the total sample, 291 participants had a some kind of TMDs, the prevalence is (83%). This work found that simple information index, play a good role in recognizing, classifying TMD symptoms depending on severity.