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Temporomandibular joint disorders
The term temporomandibular joint disorders (TMDs) are used to describe a wide range of symptoms manifested by disruption of normal temporomandibular joint function. Although the term is used to refer to a disease process, technically TMD is not a disease entity, rather a range of manifestations of altered structure and/or performance of articular and/or periarticular tissues that may arise from...
متن کاملTemporomandibular joint disorders.
Temporomandibular joint disorders are common in adults; as many as one third of adults report having one or more symptoms, which include jaw or neck pain, headache, and clicking or grating within the joint. Most symptoms improve without treatment, but various noninvasive therapies may reduce pain for patients who have not experienced relief from self-care therapies. Physical therapy modalities ...
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Complicated anatomical configuration of the temporomandibular joint was the reason for developing standardized radiographic techniques which would provide accurate anatomical images. Tomography provides excellent bony details but no in formation of the soft tissue component of the joint. This technique is useful in demonstrating suspected hypoplasia, hypertrophy or malformation of the condyles,...
متن کاملTemporomandibular Joint Remodeling for the Treatment of Temporomandibular Joint Disorders - A Clinical Case Study
Introduction: The author (R. Wurgaft) has tried a unique way of splint therapy in the treatment of temporomandibular disorder. An orthopedic splint that only contact in the posterior occlusion, actually only the most distal contacts, is designed to distalize the mandible, and in turn to produce tissue remodeling of the temporomandibular joint. With this technique, it is possible to treat tempor...
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Dislocation of the condyle of the mandible is a common condition that may occur in an acute or chronic form. It is characterised by inability to close the mouth with or without pain. Dislocation has to be differentiated from subluxation which is a self reducible condition. Dislocation can occur in any direction with anterior dislocation being the commonest one. Various predisposing factors have...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Japanese Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
سال: 1990
ISSN: 2186-1579,0021-5163
DOI: 10.5794/jjoms.36.2155