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Jaw Symptom Questionnaire for Evaluating Patients with Temporomandibular Joint Disorders

Purpose: To monitor a patient with a temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disorder over time using a jaw symptom questionnaire.

Description

A Jaw Symptom Questionnaire developed by Clark et al can be used to monitor patients with temporomandibular joint disorders and to measure the effect of therapeutic interventions. It consists of two parts, the first dealing with jaw pain and the second jaw function.


Part A: Jaw Pain Questions: 8 items

 

Patient Response

Points

doesn't hurt at all

0

hurts a little

1

hurts a lot

2

almost unbearable

3

unbearable pain without relief

4

 

jaw pain score =

= SUM(points for all 8 responses)

 

Part B: Jaw Function Questions: 5 items

 

Patient Response

Points

no

0

maybe a little

1

quite a lot

2

almost all the time

3

all the time without stopping

4

 

jaw function score =

= SUM(points for all 5 responses)

 

Interpretation:

• minimum score for both parts: 0

• maximum score for jaw pain questions: 32

• maximum score for jaw function questions: 20


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Specialty

Objective

ICD-10