A relação da disfunção temporomandibular com fatores sociodemográficos em estudantes de odontologia da UFPB

Abstract

This study aimed at evaluating the relationship with temporomandibular dysfunction (TMD) in undergraduate students of Dentistry at the Federal University of Paraíba, associated with socio-demographic factors such as income, schooling and marital status of parents and respondents, age, physical activity, interest in the profession and knowledge of other languages, according to the Fonseca's Anamnesis Index Questionnaire. The study was carried out transversally, with an inductive approach and descriptive and inferential statistical analysis with 112 collaborators, of which 37 were male (32.7%) and 75 were female (66.4%), aged between 18 and 35 years. It was possible to notice that 63,55% of the students who were affected with TMD had 22 years or more, most of them were dating somebody (44,57%) and 32,14% the rest are generated from a minimum. It is conclued that the multifactorial aspects of TMD are not influenced by the undergrate students in dentistry at UFPB.