Ankylosis of primary mandibular molars has been routinely found to be associated with various developmental disturbances in permanent dentition such as aplasia of the succedaneous tooth, ectopic eruption of the premolar, infraoclusion of the ankylosed tooth leading to tipping of the first permanent molar etc. This article describes a rare case where there was ankylosis of a mandibular second pr...

Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ) ankylosis represents a fairly common condition which surgeons need to face. According Rowe, it can be defined as restricted functional capacity of the jaw with limited movements owing bony or fibrous adhesions between condyle and either glenoid fossa, disc eminence (or both). It become disease impacts patients’ daily life, who suffer from mandibular excursion reduc...

BACKGROUND To describe MRI and clinical findings in patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis with cervical spine involvement at onset and follow-up under therapy. METHODS 13 patients with signs of cervical spine involvement in juvenile idiopathic arthritis with a median disease duration of 1.7 years were included in the study. Clinical records and MR images were retrospectively analyzed ac...

OBJECTIVE To preliminarily investigate the temporal patterns of the endogenous mRNA expression for members of the Wnt signaling and a series of genes regulating bone formation during the development of traumatic temporomandibular joint (TMJ) bony ankylosis in a sheep model. METHODS Six sheep were used for the induction of bony ankylosis of TMJ. We performed a condylar fracture, excision of th...

INTRODUCTION The diagnosis of ankylosing spondylitis is made from a combination of clinical features and the presence of radiographic evidence that may be detected only after many years of inflammatory back pain. It is not uncommon to have a diagnosis confirmed 5 to 10 years after the initial onset of symptoms. Development of a more-sensitive molecular imaging technology to detect structural ch...

Progression of ankylosis in patients with ankylosing spondylitis is highly variable. This suggests that ankylosis is at least partially due to genetic factors. We used the ankylosing enthesits model in DBA/1 mice to search for associated genes. Male DBA/1 were crossed with female BALB/c mice. Male F2 mice from different litters were studied by histomorphology at 26 weeks. 159 markers with seque...