본 연구는 측두하악장애 재발환자의 증상과 보존적 치료결과에 대하여 알아보고자 1991년부터 2001년까지 부산대학병원 구강내과에 내원하여 측두하악장애로 진단되어 약물요법, 물리치료, 교합안정장치 등 보존적 치료를 통해 증상이 호전되어 치료 종결하였으나 1992년부터 2002년 사이에 증상이 재발하여 재치료하여 치료 종결된 환자 53명에서 치료 전, 후의 진단명, 증상, 치료방법, 치료횟수, 치료결과를 비교, 연구하여 다음과 같은 결과를 얻었다. 1. 재발군과 원발군은 모두 보존적 치료로 증상이 현저히 개선되었다. 2. 재발군과 원발군의 초진시 증상은 통증, 최대 편이개구량은 차이가 없었으나 관절잡음과 개구제한은 원발군에서 높은 경향을 보였다. 3. 재발군과 원발군의 치료 종결시 증상은 통증, 개구제한, 관절잡음, 최대 편이개구량에서 별 차이를 보이지 않았다. 4. 재발군과 원발군 모두 치료방법, 성, 병명에 따른 치료결과의 차이는 없었다. 5. 치료 횟수에 따른 치료 결과에서 횟수가 재발군에서 10회 미만으로 줄어드는 경향을 보였다.
The purpose of this study is to compare the differences between first visits and the recurred time of TMD patients about the number of visits, the treatment plans, the symptoms and the results after the conservative treatments. This could lead us to assess the prognoses of TMDs treated conservatively. We investigated 54 patients who have visited the Department of Oral Medicine in PNUH from 1991 to 2001, diagnosed as TMDs and treated conservatively with medications, physical therapies and splints. The treatments were terminated since the subjects have shown much improvements and resumed when TMDs recurred from 1992 to 2002. We researched the diagnoses, symptoms, the number of visits, the treatment plans and the results comparing the time before and after the treatments were carried out and following are the results. 1. Both the primary and the recurred groups improved after having been treated conservatively. 2. Both the primary and the recurred groups showed no differences in pains and MCOs when they first visited though the noises and LOMs turned out to be more serious in primary group. 3. Both the primary and the recurred groups had no differences in pains, noises, LOMs, MCOs when the treatments were over. 4. The results of treatments were not affected by treatment plans, sex, diagnoses in both primary and recurred groups. 5. Most of the patents tended to visit less than 10 times in recurred patients.
