1. Association of dietary habits with symptoms of temporomandibular disorders in Bangladeshi adolescents
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Okahito Honda, Hayato Nameki, Kimiya Nakamura, Manabu Morita, Rahena Akhter, and Nur Mohammad Monsur Hassan
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Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Dentistry ,Signs and symptoms ,Logistic regression ,Feeding behavior ,Age Distribution ,stomatognathic system ,Internal medicine ,symptoms of TMD ,Prevalence ,Medicine ,Humans ,Sex Distribution ,General Dentistry ,dietary habits ,Bangladesh ,business.industry ,Temporomandibular disorder ,Feeding Behavior ,Temporomandibular Joint Disorders ,Health Surveys ,Temporomandibular joint ,stomatognathic diseases ,Mouth opening ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Logistic Models ,Tooth Diseases ,adolescent ,Age distribution ,Female ,business - Abstract
The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com, The prevalences of signs and symptoms of temporomandibular disorder (TMD) in Bangladeshi adolescents and their associations with intake of various hard food items were investigated. A group of 1,200 randomly selected high school students aged 12-17 years from three communities (rural, semi-urban and urban) completed a questionnaire on dietary habits and presence of TMD symptoms and were examined clinically. In bivariate analysis, no significant relationship was observed between TMD symptoms and eating of hard foods. However, in logistic regression analysis, clicking showed a significant correlation with consumption of hard vegetable and fruits more than 3 times per week (P
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- 2004