Clinical symptoms of stylohyoid chain ossification vary from ear pain to dysphagia. It is usually diagnosed coincidentally. Localized ossification of the chain is common, whereas diffuse ossification is rare. Herein, a case with bilateral diffuse stylohyoid chain ossification diagnosed with computed tomography, which was performed in order to evaluate the patient's temporomandibular joint pain,...

Cervical Spondylosis (SC) is the most common disorder of cervical spine. Intervertebral discs can degenerate as a result natural aging. Other degenerative changes include osteophyte formation, facet joint hypertrophy, longitudinal ligament calcification, and flava thickening. Aim: The aim this study to show different methods physiotherap used for rehabilitation spondylosis compare among them co...

Eagle’s syndrome is the term given to the symptomatic elongation of the styloid process or mineralisation of the stylohyoid or stylomandibular ligament or posterior belly of the digastric muscle. Symptoms of Eagle’s syndrome are pharyngeal pain localised in the tonsillar fossa or hyoid bone, hypersalivation, foreign body sensation, rarely voice change. The pain is triggered by head rotation, li...

OBJECTIVE To describe the role of routine radiographic examination of clinically healthy completely edentulous jaws prior to fabrication of the first set of complete dentures. DESIGN Cross-sectional retrospective descriptive study. SETTINGS The departments of Conservative and Prosthetic Dentistry, and Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Oral Medicine/Oral Pathology, Dental Maxillofacial Radiolo...

Objectives: The objective of this case report was to determine radioopacities of the cervical region on panoramic radiographs using doppler ultrasound. Methods: 3 patients with radio-opacities of the cervical region on digital panoramic radiographs were referred to doppler ultrasound for further diagnosis. Results: In 2 cases carotid artery calcifications were identified as an irregular radio-o...

Eagle syndrome (ES) is a symptom complex including recurrent neck and throat pain, foreign body sensation in the throat and dysphagia as a result of the elongation of the styloid process or the mineralization of the stylohyoid ligament complex. The symptoms of ES may worsen with lateral rotation of the head and it may less commonly present with tinnitus, weakness on the tongue, altered speech, ...

Despite the striking radiographic appearance of an ossified and elongated stylohyoid process, the significance of this abnormality has not been appreciated except by physicians and dental surgeons who are familiar with the symptom complex first described by Eagle [1]. Symptomatic elongation of the stylohyoid process, the Eagle syndrome, should be considered in the differential diagnosis of obsc...

Background. Melnick-Needles Syndrome is rare congenital hereditary skeletal dysplasia caused by mutations in the FLNA gene, which codifies the protein filamin A. This condition leads to serious skeletal abnormalities, including the stomatognathic region. Case Presentation. This paper describes the case of a 13-year-old girl diagnosed with Melnick-Needles Syndrome presenting with different forms...