Clinical Study
Efficacy of the LED Red Light Therapy in the Treatment of Temporomandibular Disorders: Double Blind Randomized Controlled Trial
Table 1
Showing demographic features of patients in both groups.
| Parameter | Group A | Group B | P value |
| Gender | Female | 18 (72%) | 22 (88%) | | Male | 7 (28%) | 3 (12%) | |
| Age | Mean | 21.8 | 19.5 | 0.0001 |
| Psychological distress | 100% | 90 % | |
| Duration of the symptoms in years (average) | 1.4 | 1 | 0.6868 |
| Previous Treatment | 60% | 20% | |
| Degree of pain before starting treatment (mean) | 7.2 | 5.56 | 0.0066 |
| Habit history | 60% | 40% | |
| Presence of clicking | 80% | 80% | |
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: pain measured by a scale from zero to 10, where zero represents the lowest pain value and 10 the highest. |