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Item “Relación de la presencia de los terceros molares y el desarrollo de cefaléas y cervicalgias recurrentes”(Universidad Técnica de Ambato - Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud - Carrera de Terapia Física, 2020-02-01) Vásconez Astudillo, Thalía Mercedes; Peñafiel Luna , Andrea CarolinaLcda, Mg.Headaches and cervicalgia are the most recurrent symptoms in medical consultations, usually evolve favorably with conventional treatment; but sometimes its resolution is prolonged, becoming a chronic problem, which limits the autonomy of the person and produces a sensitive deterioration in the quality of life, so it has been proposed to relate the presence of the third molars and the development of headaches and recurrent cervicalgia, through the application to 30 patients with the presence of third molars, symptomatic or not; From a headache perception questionnaire and the cervical disability index questionnaire, patients were categorized by age and sex, according to the status of their third molars, the clinical characteristics of headache and cervicalgia pain were identified. The results revealed that 30% of the population had sprouted third molars, 20% retained and 50% extracted; the majority of the population were between 18 and 25 years of age; there is jaw pain associated with headache; that is unleashed when chewing; in the form of pressure; of intermittent type and of moderate intensity; While cervicalgia did not greatly alter the daily activities of the patients and presented at a moderate intensity, the correlation between the headache variable and third molars reveals a p value of 0.551; and cervicalgia 0.009; Therefore, it was concluded that the state of the third molars does not influence the presence of headaches; while in cervicalgias if they are related.