The British Society for Dental Research (A Division of the IADR) 43rd Annual Meeting April 10-13, 1995 University of Manchester England

The following abstract by A. M. Miles et al. was omitted from the 1995 Divisional Abstracts book. It should have appeared as No. 430 in I Dent Res 74(3): 814-900, but No. 420 was duplicated by mistake. The publisher regrets this error.

A MILES^*. L OLOVER. S HARRISON, S PEARCE. C FElNMANN, and M HARRIS. (Dept Maxillnfacial Surgery. Eastman Dental Hospital, London): Measuring depression in facial pain: BDI vs. HADS.

The aim of this study is to compain the consistency between patients' score on the Back Depression Inventory (BDI) and their-score on the Hospital Arixiety and Dapression Scale (HADS).

It was hypothesized that the BDI would mark more patients out as deprassed than the HADS as result of the somatic and behavioural issurns it cofitains. Such lioms can overlap with symptoms of pain (e.g. Insomnia. work inhibition) thereby inflating score of depresion.

24 patients with chronic idiopathic facial pain completed both the BDI and the HADS prior to oro-facial assessment.

Results show agreement between the two scales was high (r-0.69, p<0.001).

It is concluded that agreement between the BDI and BDI and the HADS is high in chronic facial pain patients. Either questionneire therefore be used to measure deoression in this

The following abstract by L. Fartash et al. is a corrrected version of No. 565 that appeared in J Dent Res 74( 3): 814-900.

L FARTASH^*, T J CLIFFROD AND P.J LAMEY (School of Clinical Deatinary, The Queen's University of Bethat, UK): Migraine, temporomandibudar johni disorders and mandibudar kidi.

Migraine is a common condition with a number of recognised precipatating function. Recently acctural parafunctional activity has been added to this list and may be of partienlar importanes since 70% of migrainears have cheir attaches on waking suggesting a accoturanal arigger. Temporomandibuller dysiuaction syndrome (TMIDS) is simiarly maielfactorial bur parafunction has long been catablished as a significant trigger factor. Maadibular and can be inheritted and chains have been made that they are in some way related to parafunction. To test this hypothesis 86 unselected migninears 24 patients with TMJDS were compared with as equalnumber of age and sex matched controls with no known history of parafunction, migraine or TMJDS. The prevalence of meadibular lod was 36% (migraine) 54% (TMJDS) and 3% (control subjects). There is a signficant differences (p&0.0001) between control subjects and migraincucs and TMJDS patients in rehation to the presence os mandibulbar sort.

This study lends support to the hyperthesis that mandibulat teri are related to presulaction activity. In additions the presence of mandibular sort in migindeiners may have impertient implications for management.