Statistical analysis of an urban population of 236 patients with head and neck pain. Part III. Treatment modalities.

Data collected from standardized temporomandibular joint examination forms and treatment records of patients diagnosed as having Myofascial Pain Dysfunction Syndrome and treated using occlusal adjustment as the primary mode have been presented. A higher success rate was found in those patients: (1) with a chief complaint of pain confined to the area of one or both temporomandibular joints only, (2) whose answer to location of pain on initial examination was identified as confined solely to the region of one or both temporomandibular joints, (3) with muscle tenderness to palpation to one or both lateral pterygoid muscles with no other muscle involvement, (4) recorded as having a centric discrepancy in the absence of a balancing side prematurity, and (5) in the 31 to 40-year-old age group.