Pain Research and Management

Research Article

Do Temporomandibular Disorder Patients with Joint Pain Exhibit Forward Head Posture? A Cephalometric Study

Table 7

Multivariate linear regression analysis between the possibility of presenting TMJ pain and head and cervical posture parameters, adjusted for gender, age, educational level, residence, and family per capita monthly income.


Head and cervical posture parameters	Nonadjusted				Adjusted model
Head and cervical posture parameters	B		95% CI		B		95% CI

Ba-C3ia (mm)	1.249	0.064	−0.075	2.573
C2ap-C4ip (mm)	1.579		0.161	2.997	1.092	0.083	−0.146	2.329
Cranio cervical angle (°)	−1.426	0.219	−3.707	0.855
CVT/OPT (°)	−0.125	0.766	−0.953	0.703
CVT/FH (°)	1.719	0.161	−0.690	4.128
CVT/NSL (°)	1.579	0.162	−0.639	3.797
CVT/RL (°)	3.018		1.106	4.930	3.099		1.172	5.026
OPT/RL (°)	2.179		0.044	4.315	2.117		0.002	4.232
NSL/C2’ (°)	4.432		2.051	6.813	4.646		2.209	7.083

Notes: Adjusted model adjusts for gender, age, educational level, residence, and family per capita monthly income. . TMD, temporomandibular disorder; TMJ, temporomandibular joint; CI, confidence interval.