Women with more severe degrees of temporomandibular disorder exhibit an increase in temperature over the temporomandibular joint

Dibai‐Filho, Almir Vieira; Costa, Ana Cláudia de Souza; Packer, Amanda Carine; Castro, Ester Moreira de; Rodrigues-Bigaton, Delaine

doi:10.1016/j.sdentj.2014.10.002

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“…DIT has also been applied to evaluation of TMD patients [23,24], however, its diagnostic value and usefulness are not consistent according to both the region of temperature measurements and subject population like myogenous or arthrogenous [3,6,13,17,18,24]. TMD can affect other anatomic structures of the masticatory system simultaneously and many arthrogenous TMD patients often accompany masticatory muscle pain, therefore, this comorbidity and heterogeneity of study population may be thought to affect and bias the analyses of thermal characteristics of each patient population.…”

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Consecutive digital infrared thermography in patients withtemporomandibular joint arthralgia

Kim

2019

Oral Biol Res

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The objective of this study was to investigate the changes of skin temperatures over the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) and clinical findings consecutively during conservative treatments in unilateral TMJ arthralgia patients. The study enrolled 31 patients with unilateral TMJ arthralgia and 26 healthy control subjects based on the Research Diagnostic Criteria for Temporomandibuar Disorders. The measurements of skin temperatures over the TMJ and clinical examinations were performed in all subjects at baseline, 2 and 4 weeks later, and patients were given conservative treatments. Thermographic examinations were performed before and after chewing activity for 5 minutes in each session. The data were analyzed by repeated-measures ANOVA. In affected TMJ, the change in temperature between before and after chewing activity was significantly high in TMJ arthralgia group and decreased after 2 and 4 weeks. Thermal asymmetry measured before chewing activity showed insignificant difference between groups. However, those measured after chewing activity were significantly high in TMJ arthralgia group and reduced to the similar level of control group after 2 and 4 weeks. After chewing activity, both skin temperature over painful TMJ and the extent of thermal asymmetry in TMJ arthralgia patients were higher than those of control group. These thermal indices of TMJ arthralgia patients were reduced in accordance with clinical improvements by conservative treatments. Consecutive thermography accompanying chewing activity which may increase TMJ pain temporarily can be a useful adjunctive technique to diagnose TMJ arthralgia and evaluate its clinical progression including level of pain.

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Consecutive digital infrared thermography in patients withtemporomandibular joint arthralgia

Kim

2019

Oral Biol Res

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“…Despite optimistic earlier studies suggesting the ability of thermal imaging to discriminate patients with an unspecific temporomandibular disorder with an accuracy in the range of 85-90% [169]- [172], recent studies focusing on diagnostics of specific conditions have shown mixed accuracies. For example, while skin temperature was proven to be associated with chronic myogenous temporomandibular disorder [173], thermal imaging failed to provide an accurate diagnostic of both this disorder [174], [175] and arthralgia [176] However in these studies, the severity of the participants' conditions was not assessed before the tests, as demonstrated relevant in a following study [177].…”

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A Survey on Computer Vision for Assistive Medical Diagnosis From Faces

Thevenot

López

Hadid

2018

IEEE J. Biomed. Health Inform.

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Automatic medical diagnosis is an emerging center of interest in computer vision as it provides unobtrusive objective information on a patient's condition. The face, as a mirror of health status, can reveal symptomatic indications of specific diseases. Thus, the detection of facial abnormalities or atypical features is at upmost importance when it comes to medical diagnostics. This survey aims to give an overview of the recent developments in medical diagnostics from facial images based on computer vision methods. Various approaches have been considered to assess facial symptoms and to eventually provide further help to the practitioners. However, the developed tools are still seldom used in clinical practice, since their reliability is still a concern due to the lack of clinical validation of the methodologies and their inadequate applicability. Nonetheless, efforts are being made to provide robust solutions suitable for healthcare environments, by dealing with practical issues such as real-time assessment or patients positioning. This survey provides an updated collection of the most relevant and innovative solutions in facial images analysis. The findings show that with the help of computer vision methods, over 30 medical conditions can be preliminarily diagnosed from the automatic detection of some of their symptoms. Furthermore, future perspectives, such as the need for interdisciplinary collaboration and collecting publicly available databases, are highlighted.

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“…The rationale behind the prevalence of TMD has not been elucidated yet, but the influence of hormones, mainly estrogen, has been suggested. Dibai-Filho et al 11 declared that women are mostly affected by TMD owing to anatomic, biological, and hormonal factors.…”

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Degenerative bone changes in TMJ assessed by cone beam computed tomography

Azevedo

Barros

Donato

et al. 2016

RGO, Rev. Gaúch. Odontol.

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ObjectiveTo assess the degenerative bone changes of the jaw head and the condylar mobility regarding gender and age. Methods The sample was composed of 106 CBCT images for TMJ region from patients over 18 years old, from both genders, from the archives of a radiological clinic in the city RESUMO ObjetivoAvaliar as alterações ósseas degenerativas na cabeça da mandíbula e a mobilidade condilar com relação ao gênero e à faixa etária. MétodosA amostra foi constituída por 106 exames de TCFC para a região de ATM de pacientes com mais de 18 anos, do arquivo de uma clínica de radiologia odontológica, localizada na cidade de Campina Grande, PB, Brasil. As imagens foram obtidas com os pacientes em máxima intercuspidação e abertura de boca. As imagens foram examinadas por um radiologista, por meio do próprio software do tomógrafo Xoran CAT ® , usando-se um monitor com alta resolução e máxima qualidade de cor (12 bits) em ambiente com luz reduzida. Foram avaliados os aspectos tomográficos das alterações ósseas degenerativas (facetamento, erosão, osteófitos, esclerose óssea e pseudocisto) de ambas as ATM. As associações entre as alterações degenerativas e o sexo e a faixa etária foram investigadas por meio dos testes exato de Fisher, G e Qui-quadrado. Os dados obtidos quanto à excursão condilar (normoexcursão, hipoexcursão e hiperexcursão), segundo a localização também foram submetidos a análises descritivas. ResultadosAs alterações mais frequentes foram o facetamento (58,5%), seguido de osteófito (44,3%), erosão (22,6%), esclerose (13,2%) e pseudocisto (10,4%). Em relação à excursão condilar, observou-se que a normoexcursão foi a mais prevalente (71,7%). ConclusãoAs alterações ósseas degenerativas ocorreram de forma mais frequente em mulheres e de forma bilateral, e houve um aumento da frequência com a idade. Não foi encontrada correlação entre a excursão condilar e a presença de alterações na ATM, sendo a normoexcursão mais frequente.Termos de indexação: Articulação temporomandibular. Tomografia computadorizada. Osteoartrite.

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Women with more severe degrees of temporomandibular disorder exhibit an increase in temperature over the temporomandibular joint

Abstract: FAI score was associated with skin temperature over the TMJ, as determined by infrared thermography, in this sample. Women with more severe TMD demonstrated a bilateral increase in skin temperature.

Cited by 21 publications

References 28 publications

Consecutive digital infrared thermography in patients withtemporomandibular joint arthralgia

Consecutive digital infrared thermography in patients withtemporomandibular joint arthralgia

A Survey on Computer Vision for Assistive Medical Diagnosis From Faces

Degenerative bone changes in TMJ assessed by cone beam computed tomography

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