Psychosocial behaviour and health care utilization in patients suffering from temporomandibular disorders diagnosed on the basis of clinical findings and MRI examination

Conclusion: Somatization-specific behaviour is more widespread in patients suffering from exclusively myofascial pain than in patients presenting joint pathology. Inconsistencies in differences of other psychosocial variables between groups of TMD patients seem to be related to differences in group assignment either with or without objective information on joint pathology.