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Abstract Objective was to assess the prevalence and severity of TMD in undergraduate medical students. It was a cross sectional descriptive study based on Fonseca's Questionnaire. It was conducted in four medical disciplines (Dentistry Medicine Pharmacy and Physical therapy) of The University of Fais- alabad. All study participants were full time students and were females. Self-reported questionnaire was distributed among students and they were given detailed explanation to fill it. After collection of forms scoring was done according to given standard method and data was entered in SPSS and statistical test of Chi-squared was applied. One hundred and thirty seven (137) students were enrolled and completed questionnaire of the study. 11(7.9%) students were observed with No TMD 62(44.3%) with mild TMD 62(44.3%) with moderate TMD and 5(3.6%) students with severe TMD (Fig 1).
Difference among age groups was significant (p=0.047) for three questions (Q2 Q 5 Q10) There was no statistically significant difference regarding prevalence of TMD among all four disciplines of students. Regarding severity of TMD it was observed that MBBS students were more in category of severe TMD as compared to other disciplines.
It was concluded that the mean level of stress and TMD is almost equivalent in different disciplines of professional education with a variation in its level of severity which is 2 times more in MBBS students as compared to other students. There was no significant difference regarding prevalence of TMD in four groups of study.
IntRoduCtIon Temporomandibular disorders (TMD) are a matter of interest from last many decades as it has various etiological factors and treatment modalities.1 TMD is found to be associated with mental stress especially in students of undergraduate level.2 A study reported 2.65 times greater incidence of developing TMD in patients having mental stress as compared to non- stressed persons.3 Many factors including occlusal disharmony masticatory muscle fatigue oral habits emotional stress and early loss of teeth and malfunction of structures adjacent to TMJ contribute to the TMD.
According to a study aging has a significant effect on TMD.5 Unilateral chewing and bruxism also leads to TMD which presents in form of limitation of jaw mo- ments and clicking sounds from TMJ.36 Different studies have reported different prevalence of TMD because of variation in study design...