ow level laser treatment for masticatory muscle pai
Completed
- Conditions
- Masticatory painSigns and Symptoms
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN95474981
- Lead Sponsor
- Istanbul University Faculty of Dentistry Department of Prosthodontics
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 30
Inclusion Criteria
1. Diagnosis of myofascial pain according to the Research Diagnostic Criteria for Temporomandibular Disorder (RDC/TMD)
2. Aged between 18–60 years
3. Natural posterior occlusion
Exclusion Criteria
1.Disc displacement with reduction or without reduction with or without limited opening, arthralgia, arthritis, or arthrosis
2. General inflammatory connective tissue disease (e.g. rheumatoid arthritis)
3. Psychiatric disorder
4. Tumour
5. Hearth disease or pacemaker
7. Pregnancy
8. Symptoms that could be referred to other orofacial region diseases (e.g. toothache, neuralgia, migraine)
9. Treatment or medication use for headache or bruxism in the last 2 years
10. Local skin infection over the masseter muscle
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Mandibular movement range (right, left and protrusion) before and after the assigned treatments, pain on palpation by masseter muscles on three points (superior, middle and inferior points), temporals muscles on three points (anterior, middle and posterior points) and pressure pain thresholds for the same points by algometer.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Pressure pain thresholds of the examined muscles are investigated before and after each treatment via visual analogue score (VAS), before any after the treatments