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.................................................................... 9 POPULÄRVETENSKAPLIG SAMMANFATTNING .................. 11 PREFACE ..................................................................... 13 ABBREVIATIONS ........................................................... 15 INTRODUCTION ........................................................... 17 Oral health and temporomandibular disorders (TMD) ................17 Diagnosing TMD ...................................................................21 Psychosocial factors, sense of coherence (SoC) and general health ................................................................24 TMD management .................................................................26 Evaluating treatment outcome .................................................29 OBJECTIVES ................................................................. 33 HYPOTHESES ............................................................... 35 MATERIALS AND METHODS ........................................... 37 Patients (I-IV) .........................................................................37 Procedures (I-IV) ....................................................................39 Diagnosing and imaging (I) ...............................................39 Experimental Methods (II-IV) ..............................................42 Treatment Method (II-IV) ....................................................44 SoC, grade of depression, non-specific physical symptoms and general health (III) .......................................45 Statistical methods (I-IV) ..........................................................46 Ethical considerations ............................................................47 RESULTS ...................................................................... 49 Paper I and thesis ..................................................................49 Papers II and IV ....................................................................50 Treatment outcome ........................................................... 52 Paper III ............................................................................... 59 DISCUSSION ................................................................ 63 Diagnosing .......................................................................... 63 Resilient appliance therapy .................................................... 67 SoC as an influencing factor for the treatment outcome ............. 72 Implications for general practitioners and future research .......... 72 CONCLUSIONS ............................................................ 75 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ................................................ 77 REFERENCES ................................................................ 81