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Prevalence of temporomandibular disorders (TMD) in bleeding disorders: A systematic review with meta-analysis.

BACKGROUND: Haemophilia A, B and von Willebrand disease are the most common bleeding disorders. There is an increased tendency of spontaneous bleeding into joints resulting in intra-articular infection. It is believed that Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ) can be affected in a similar manner which can further lead to limited mouth opening and ankylosis. The association between bleeding disorders (BD) and development of temporomandibular disorders (TMD) is poorly understood. This systematic review intends to evaluate the association of TMD in individuals with inherited bleeding disorders as compared to healthy controls.

METHODS: PubMed, Ovid SP and Google Scholar were searched for articles published between the times of inception to 1 May 2023. All the articles were subjected to Population, Exposure, Comparison and Outcome model (PECO) based on which inclusion and exclusion criteria were applied. Participants (P) is children, adults or adolescents; Exposure (E) is children, adults or adolescents with a diagnosis of Haemophilia or bleeding disorder (BD); Comparator (C) is age and gender-matched healthy controls who do not have Haemophilia or bleeding disorder; Outcome (O) is prevalence of any signs or symptoms (clinical, radiographic) that is suggestive of temporomandibular disorder (TMD). Studies showing the prevalence of TMD are included for qualitative analysis. Only the studies which provided data of the prevalence of TMD in both the groups (BD and healthy controls) were included in the quantitative analysis. TMD diagnosis can be by clinical signs and symptoms, radiographic criteria, Diagnostic Criteria for Temporomandibular Disorders (DC/TMD), The Research Diagnostic Criteria for Temporomandibular Disorders (RDC/TMD) or any other imaging criteria (MRI). We have set the exclusion criteria as articles without a control group, diagnostic sensitivity studies, case reports and systematic reviews and narrative reviews. The software Review Manager version 5.4 (Cochrane Collaboration) was used to perform the pooled analysis. We measured the risk ratio (RR) between the two groups (BD and healthy controls) for the outcome TMD.

RESULTS: A total of seven studies are included for qualitative analysis of data. The age of the population (BD and control) in the included studies ranged between 2 and 57 years. The prevalence of TMD in individual studies varied from 2% to 77%, and controls in the individual studies varied from 2% to 14%. Among the included studies, only clinical signs, symptoms and history were taken into consideration in four studies. Four studies were included for meta-analysis, the pooled result of the four studies suggests there is no significant difference in the prevalence of TMD in BD and control group (p value = .11, RR 2.19; 95% CI [0.84, 5.73]).

CONCLUSION: This systematic review and meta-analysis elicits no association between bleeding disorders and increased prevalence of TMD.

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