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ABSTRACT

Introduction. Patients with temporomandibular muscle disorders (TMD) have difficulty chewing and mouth opening and the same headache, or earsbring as consequences of sleep disorders and irritability.
Objective. Determine the influence of combined psychotherapywith conservative treatment produces better control of pain on mouth opening and pain on chewing cervical compared to the application only conservative treatment in patients with TMD muscle of Hospital.
Methods. Intervention study, longitudinal and comparative. Formed two groups of patients, 20 of group A and 27 group B, patients who visited the serviceMaxillofacial Surgery of the Central Military Hospital TTM muscle. Were diagnosed by a history, physical examination, complementary examinations and psychometric tests, were operated with conservative treatment (group A) and treatment combined with psychotherapy conservative (group B). The Statistical analysis was performed using the parametric Ttest for comparison of means two independent samples, using the package statistics for social sciences version 19.
Results. Favorable effects were found (p ‹ 0.05) treatment conservative combined with psychotherapy with conservative treatment only, in conjunction with pain control to open the mouth, the chewing and neck pain, anxiety and depression.
Conclusions. The results agree with those of current studies. It favors the interpretation biopsychosocial etiology of disorders of Temporomandibular muscle. We recommend interdisciplinary approach, considering the psychotherapy as a measure of secondary care.

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