Thumati Prafulla, Poovani Shwetha, Ayinala Mounika
Oro-Facial Pain Clinic, RajaRajeswari Dental College and Hospital, Bengaluru, India.
Department of Prosthodontics, RajaRajeswari Dental College and Hospital, Bengaluru, India.
Cranio. 2023 Nov;41(6):494-500. doi: 10.1080/08869634.2021.1887609. Epub 2021 Feb 9.
To assess the five-year long-term quality of life of patients who were treated with Disclusion Time Reduction Therapy (DTR).
Thirty occluso-muscular disorder patients responded to two questionnaires about their symptom intensities, frequencies, and pain levels that were given to the patients before DTR therapy and five years after. Both surveys were subjected to the Wilcoxon signed-rank test to compare differences in the reported intensities, frequencies, and pain levels.
A statistically significant reduction was found between the pre- and five-year post-DTR treatment intensities, frequencies, and pain scores ( < 0.05).
The chronic pain intensity and frequency observed in patients with occluso-muscular disorders can be markedly reduced by Immediate Complete Anterior Guidance Development (ICAGD)/DTR therapy, while improving the patient's overall long-term quality of life. Many pre-ICAGD/DTR daily chronic and painful, occluso-muscular symptoms were no longer present years after undergoing ICAGD/DTR treatment.
评估接受缩短分离时间疗法（DTR）治疗的患者的五年长期生活质量。
30名咬合肌紊乱患者对两份关于症状强度、频率和疼痛程度的问卷做出回应，这两份问卷分别在DTR治疗前和治疗五年后发给患者。两项调查均采用Wilcoxon符号秩检验，以比较报告的强度、频率和疼痛程度的差异。
在DTR治疗前和治疗五年后的强度、频率和疼痛评分之间发现有统计学意义的降低（<0.05）。
即时完全前导引导发育（ICAGD）/DTR疗法可显著降低咬合肌紊乱患者的慢性疼痛强度和频率，同时改善患者的整体长期生活质量。许多ICAGD/DTR治疗前日常的慢性和疼痛性咬合肌症状在接受ICAGD/DTR治疗数年后不再出现。
