Aims: To carry out a randomized clinical trial (RCT) contrasting usual conservative treatment
of TMD by clinical TMD specialists with a structured self-care intervention, targeted to clinic …

Aims: To analyze the reliability, validity, and clinical utility of the depression, non-specific
physical symptoms, and graded chronic pain scales comprising the Research Diagnostic …

Aims: To test the usefulness of tailoring cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for patients with
temporomandibular disorders (TMD) who demonstrated poor psychosocial adaptation to …

There is a need to expand the current temporomandibular disorders'(TMDs) classification to
include less common but clinically important disorders. The immediate aim was to develop a …

The Research Diagnostic Criteria for Temporomandibular Disorders (RDC/TMD) guidelines,
originally developed in the United States, were translated and used to classify TMD patients …

OBJECTIVES: The relationship between the rate of chronic pain-related disability and
depression and somatization levels as well as the influence of pain duration on Research …

Study Design Ninery-four patients diagnosed as having chronic temporomandibular pain
(TMJ or MPD¡ were evaluated prior ro treatment by a dentist using the Craniomandibular …

Background In this executive summary, the authors describe a protocol for assessing
patients with temporomandibular disorder (TMD). It is based on the Diagnostic Criteria for …

The lack of standardized diagnostic criteria for defining clinical subtypes of
temporomandibular disorders (TMD) was the main motive to create the Research Diagnostic …

Background Substantial cost is associated with the treatment of chronic temporomandibular
disorders, or TMDs, and patients with TMDs often experience significant psychosocial …