한방병원에 내원한 악관절 환자 52명에 관한 임상적 고찰

The Clinical Study of 52 Patients with Temporomandibular Disorder who Visited Oriental Medical Hospital

Objectives : The propose of this study is to analyze characteristics with sex, age, motivation, symptom, Impression, treatment effect about temporomandibular disorder patients. Method : We performed a retrospective study of 52 patients who visited the Jaseng Hospital of Oriental Medicine, from August 2008 to October 2008. Result : Women occupied the most part. And 27 persons in the 20th are the most distribution of age. The majority of patients occured the symptom for no reason. In the distribution of symptoms, TMD pain(88.46%), Click sound(82.69%), neck pain(52.92%), headache(38.46%), lumbago(21.15%) happened. In the impression through radiological diagnoses, The majority of patients diagnosed Straightening of cervical lordotic curvature. Oriental medical treatment showed a very valuable effect on improvement of TMD symptom. Conclusion : The results showed a valuable treatment effect of temporotandibular disorders on Oriental medical treatment. Therefore this work have the necessity of continuous study and observation and will help us to understand the features of patients who visiting the TMD clinic of Jaseng Hospital of Oriental medicine.