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j o u r n a l o f d e n t i s t r y 3 8 ( 2 0 1 0 ) 3 9 2 – 3 9 9 available at w journal homepage: l.els /journals/jden Age peaks of different RDC/TMD diagnoses in a patient population a,* b c a Daniele Manfredini , Fabio Piccotti , Giuseppe Ferronato , Luca Guarda-Nardini a TMD Clinic, University of Padova, Italy b Private Practice, Marina di Carrara (MS), Italy c Department of Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Padova, Italy a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Aims: To evaluate the prevalence of different Research Diagnostic Criteria for Temporo- Received 25 September 2009 mandibular Disorders (RDC/TMD) diagnoses in a population of patients seeking for TMD Received in revised form treatment at a tertiary clinic in Northern Italy; to evaluate the pattern of age distribution of 12 January 2010 RDC/TMD diagnoses and to compare data with those from similar studies in the literature. Accepted 16 January 2010 Materials and methods: Two-hundred-forty-three (N = 243) consecutive patients seeking TMD treatment at the TMD Clinic, Department of Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Padova, Italy, during the period from July 1st to December 31st, 2008, underwent a RDC/ Keywords: TMD axis I assessment by the use of a systematically translated Italian version of the RDC/ RDC/TMD