Table 5.

Multifrequency medication use for temporomandibular joint disorder in the classification of medication by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, Korea

OP			WM OP			DM OP			DM IP
Class	N	%	Class	N	%	Class	N	%	Class	N	%
Psychosomatic agents	10 447.2	86.4	Antipyretic analgesic agents	250.5	50.9	Psychosomatic agents	10 316.2	89.0	Oxygen	262.5	26.6
Radio-pharmaceutical	594.9	4.9	Psychosomatic agents	131	26.6	Radio-pharmaceutical	594.92	5.1	Mainly acting on gram-positive, negative bacteria	195	19.8
Antipyretic analgesic agents	472.5	3.9	Adrenal hormones agents	28	5.7	Antipyretic analgesic agents	222	1.9	Peptic ulcer Solvent	120	12.2
Skeletal muscle relaxant	133	1.1	Antihistamines	26.3	5.3	Skeletal muscle relaxant	126	1.1	Antipyretic analgesic agents	110	11.1
Adrenal hormones agents	129	1.1	Peptic ulcer Solvent	15	3.0	Antacid	126	1.1	Enzyme preparation	95	9.6
Antacid	129	1.1	Medications for organs of other tissue cells	9	1.8	Adrenal hormones agents	101	0.9	General anaesthetic	32.099	3.3
Local anaesthetics	63.4	0.5	Blood substitute	9	1.8	Local anaesthetics	56.1	0.5	Blood substitute	26	2.6
Peptic ulcer solvent	30	0.2	Local anaesthetics	7.3	1.5	Blood substitute	15	0.1	Adrenal hormones agents	20	2.0
Antihistamines	26.3	0.2	Skeletal muscle relaxant	7	1.4	Peptic ulcer solvent	15	0.1	Antitussive expectorants	17	1.7
Blood substitute	24	0.2	Enzyme preparation	3	0.6	Opium alkaloids	10	0.1	Opium alkaloids	15	1.5
Others	37.5	0.3	Others	5.9	1.2	Others	12.6	0.1	Others	94	9.5
Total	12 086.7	100	Total	491.9	100	Total	11 594.8	100	Total	986.6	100

*There were only two prescriptions of antipyretic analgesic agents (114) in WM IP class, so we omitted the column for convenience.

DM, dental medicine; IP, inpatient; KM, Korean medicine; OP, outpatient; WM, Western medicine.