Department of Integrated Dentistry, Dental Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland.
Students Scientific Group of Integrated Dentistry at the Department of Integrated Dentistry, Dental Institute, Jagiellonian University, Medical College, Krakow, Poland.
Pain Res Manag. 2020 May 27;2020:9531806. doi: 10.1155/2020/9531806. eCollection 2020.
The most common nondental orofacial pain conditions are temporomandibular disorders (TMDs). TMD basic examination and clinical management are included in a curriculum of each dentistry programme taught in Poland, but it is not clear how the dentists cope with diagnosis and possible treatment in their routine dental practices. The objective of the present study was to assess a level of self-perceived knowledge of TMD amongst dentists in Poland. . The participants, of whom all studied and graduated from a Polish university, were randomly selected from dental offices in Krakow (Poland). The selected dentists were administered an anonymous questionnaire, which contained questions measuring self-assessment of knowledge of TMD diagnosis and therapy and assessing knowledge of ethology and TMD symptoms.
Only 6.5% of the participants identified their TMD knowledge as very good, 32.3% assessed it as good, 39.3% thought it was sufficient, 20.4% as insufficient, and 1.49% considered it as poor. 9.4% of all participants have attempted to diagnose and treat TMD patients very often, 26.4% declared performing it often, 45.8% rarely, and 18.4% had never made such an attempt. There was a significant relationship between the dentists' knowledge and their attempts at diagnosing and treating TMD patients ( < 0.05).
The level of TMD knowledge amongst the Polish dentists is still insufficient. Raising its level would considerably help the dentists to refer their patients to right specialists for a diagnosis and TMD treatment and/or interdisciplinary management of TMD patients.
最常见的非牙科口腔颌面部疼痛疾病是颞下颌关节紊乱病（TMD）。TMD 的基本检查和临床管理包含在波兰教授的每个牙科课程中，但尚不清楚牙医在日常牙科实践中如何进行诊断和可能的治疗。本研究的目的是评估波兰牙医对 TMD 的自我认知程度。研究对象均毕业于波兰大学，从克拉科夫（波兰）的牙科诊所中随机选择。向选定的牙医发放了一份匿名问卷，其中包含评估 TMD 诊断和治疗知识自我评估以及评估行为学和 TMD 症状知识的问题。
只有 6.5%的参与者认为他们的 TMD 知识非常好，32.3%的参与者认为它是好的，39.3%的参与者认为它是足够的，20.4%的参与者认为它是不足的，1.49%的参与者认为它是差的。9.4%的参与者经常尝试诊断和治疗 TMD 患者，26.4%的参与者表示经常这样做，45.8%的参与者很少这样做，18.4%的参与者从未尝试过。牙医的知识与其诊断和治疗 TMD 患者的尝试之间存在显著关系（<0.05）。
波兰牙医的 TMD 知识水平仍然不足。提高这一水平将极大地帮助牙医将患者转介给合适的专家进行诊断和 TMD 治疗，以及 TMD 患者的跨学科管理。
