Research Article

Case Series of an Intraoral Balancing Appliance Therapy on Subjective Symptom Severity and Cervical Spine Alignment

Table 1

General characteristics of the patients.

No. (%)

Gender
 Male32 (54.2%)
 Female27 (45.8%)
Chief complaints
 Pain disorder33 (55.9%)
 Temporomandibular joint pain 9 (15.3%)
 Neck pain8 (13.6%)
 Headache6 (10.2%)
 Others10 (16.9%)
 Idiopathic torticollis9 (15.3%)
 Others17 (28.8%)
Duration of symptoms (years)
 0–2 20 (33.9%)
 2–4 15 (25.4%)
 4–10 12 (20.3%)
 10–16 8 (13.6%)
 16–22 2 (3.4%)
 22–38 2 (3.4%)
Outpatient treatment
 Period (months)*1.5 ± 1.7 (0.1–8.1)
 No. of treatments*20.7 ± 33.4 (3–229)

*Data are presented as mean ± SD (range).