Hospital discharge due to temporomandibular joint disorder from 1997 to 2013, CCSS
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https://doi.org/10.59334/ROV.v1i24.255Keywords:
Temporomandibular Joint Disorder, TMD, EpidemiologyAbstract
The following descriptive study analyzes reported cases of temporomandibular disease disorder, according
to the database of registered hospital discharged from the Health Statistics Area of the Costa Rican Social
Security occurred during the years 1997 to 2013, which analyzed the behavior of the epidemiological variables
of time, place and person; frequency measurements and nonparametric statistics. The purpose of this article
is to investigate the mix of case that would give the professional in dentistry, a tool for early diagnosis which
contributes to the individual establishment of prevention and intervention of risk factors detected. A total of
167 cases of temporomandibular joint disorder were recorded according to the International Classification
of Diseases ICD-10. The ratio from the obtained results was 2.71 females for every male graduate with
temporomandibular joint disorder. Age rate obtained predominance in the population of 20-44 years being 5.63
X 100.00 inhabitants and a relative risk for this same group of 10.64 and the rate per geographical location in
our country was 8.37 per 100,000 inhabitants, this for the case of the Limon province.
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