Prevalence of Temporomandibular Disorders in Patients With Fibromyalgia Syndrome

Overview

One Hundred Fifty woman patients diagnosed with fibromyalgia according to the American College of Rheumatology 2010 diagnostic criteria and 150 healthy woman volunteers will be included.Demographic data (age, gender, height, weight, marital status, education level) and duration of fibromyalgia diagnosis will be recorded. Patients will be evaluated according to the Diagnostic Criteria for Temporomandibular Disorders: Assessment Instruments (DCTMD: AI ). Patients will be evaluated by Diagnostic Criteria for Temporomandibular Disorders: Temporomandibular Disorders (TMD) Pain Screener, Symptom questionnaire, Clinical Examination Form from Assessment Instruments Axis I. Pain Drawing, Graded Chronic Pain (version 2), Jaw Functional Limitation Scale-8 (JFLS-8), Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-4), Oral Behaviors Checklist will be applied within the scope of Axis II.

In our study, the investigators aim to compare the frequency of temporomandibular disorders between healthy female participants and female patients diagnosed with fibromyalgia. Our study will consists of 300 female participants aged between 18 and 65 years who applied to the physical therapy and rehabilitation outpatient clinic between May 2021 and August 2021. This case-control study will conducted according to the Declaration of Helsinki. Participants gave written voluntary consent and enrolled in this case-control study. One Hundred Fifty woman patients diagnosed with fibromyalgia according to the American College of Rheumatology 2010 diagnostic criteria and 150 healthy woman volunteers will be included. Patients with temporomandibular region surgery, congenital teporomandibular joint pathologies, and previous temporomandibular region trauma were will be excluded from the study. Because fibromyalgia is a disease that mostly affects women, the investigators designed our study so that all participants were women. In addition, demographic data (age, gender, height, weight, marital status, education level) and duration of fibromyalgia diagnosis will be recorded. Patients will be evaluated according to the Diagnostic Criteria for Temporomandibular Disorders: Assessment Instruments ( DCTMD: AI ). Patients will be evaluated by Diagnostic Criteria for Temporomandibular Disorders: TMD Pain Screener, Symptom questionnaire, Clinical Examination Form from Assessment Instruments Axis I. Pain Drawing, Graded Chronic Pain (version 2), Jaw Functional Limitation Scale-8 (JFLS-8), Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-4),Oral Behaviors Checklist will be applied within the scope of Axis II.