Hernández RY, Tápanes DA, Casanova DC, Cárdenas PL, Saavedra DA

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ABSTRACT

Introduction: The temporomandibular articulation is a height in psicoemocional maintained situations, the same one is frequently injured being reason of consultation of the specialty of Maxilo Facial of the Dr. Miguel Enríquez Hospital, reference center in the country of the same one, where he/she was carried out a descriptive study, of traverse court, in the period between September 2010 to February 2011.
Objective: to describe partner demographically to the group in study and to value the presence of emotional states as the depression/anxiety in the patients with affectation in the temporomandibular articulation.
Methods: they were used, the Idare Test (it evaluates the anxiety) and the Test of Zung (it evaluates the depression), as well as with an interview Psicosocial, of Anxiety and Depression associated to this pathology. He/she took a sample of 23 patients of a universe of 60.
Results: they were analyzed based on the statistical package SPSS 11.5. Where patient with levels of Anxiety like high State in 91 %, like half in 9 %. In relation to the depression, moderate 65 %, light depression 31 % and of 1 % as severe, that is to say first floor levels contrary to the anxiety.
Conclusions: the prevalence of the anxiety like expression of this nosological entity in the patients affected with emotional dysfunctions, showing like feature or I eat state, prevailing on the depression or the combination of both. A superiority of feminine sex existed on the masculine one, a bigger representation of single patients on the married ones and widowers, the affected ages of 21 to 45 years and indicators of anxiety with a high prevalence on the depression.

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