A termografia no diagnóstico dos distúrbios temporomandibulares

: revisão sistemática

Abstract

Introduction: The application of infrared thermography (IT) in the diagnosis and follow-up of patients with Temporomandibular Disorders (TMD) is not consensual. Therefore, the main objective of this systematic review is to clarify the relevance/efficacy of IT application in the diagnosis of TMD. Materials and Methods: This systematic review was developed according to the standards described by the PRISMA guidelines, the research question was formulated by PICO, and the research protocol was registered on the PROSPERO platform. The research focused on 3 platforms of bibliographic databases: PubMed/MEDLINE®, Web of Science® and Embase®. The quality of the studies was evaluated through the STROBE checklist and the agreement between examiners was evaluated using Cohen's kappa coefficient. Data were collected regarding the date of performance, the population (age, gender sample size), the intervention (type of device and evaluation characteristics), the diagnostic/evaluation method and the main conclusions of each study included in this review and were analyzed in a comparative way. Results: From the initial 170 articles obtained, 74 were duplicated and/or tripled, resulting in 96 articles to be screened. In the title screening, 75 articles were selected and later, 43 articles were selected by the abstract screening. Finally, a total of 12 final articles were selected in the full-text screening. Most of them were of high quality (83.33%), with a majority sample of women and aged between 18 and 40 years. The equipment and observation conditions are quite similar, and the areas of interest are mostly TMJ, temporal and masseter. Conclusion: In general, studies conclude that the use of infrared thermography for the diagnosis of TMD demonstrated low accuracy and limited efficacy.

Date of Award	20 Jul 2022
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Patrícia Fonseca (Supervisor) & Vanessa Maria Barroso dos Santos Silva (Co-Supervisor)