Prevalence of craniomandibular dysfunction in white children with different emotional states: Part III. A comparative...

This study compared the prevalence of CMD between white children classified by the parents as calm and not calm, with twenty-six boys and twenty girls in each group (total, ninety-two children). They had been selected from a total of 386 white children examined for this study. The children were interviewed for symptoms, examined clinically for signs of CMD and malocclusion, and assigned to the study groups based on parents' responses to a questionnaire. The study showed significant differences in the prevalence of muscle and TMJ tenderness between children with different emotional states.