PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to determine the long-term objective and subjective outcomes of temporomandibular joint (TMJ) implant surgery for the treatment of painful TMJ disc displacement using temporary Silastic (Dow Corning Corporation, Midland, MI), permanent Silastic, or Proplast (Vitek, Houston, TX) implants to replace the disc. These cases were compared with other cases of the ...

Aims: Report a rare case of Diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) the maxilla which is difficult to diagnose clinically and radiographically with wide array differential diagnosis lists.
 Presentation Case: A 16-year male well-defined swelling in posterior region right associated pain, paraesthesia, abnormal mobility teeth mimicked localized periodontal abscess. The clinical DLBCL poses ch...

A 31-year-old patient complained of severe crushing chest pain that radiated to his left arm and jaw. After admission to the hospital, tests revealed a normal electrocardiogram, normal treadmill, normal coronary arteriogram, and normal cardiac enzymes. However, the patient continued to have pain, which was relieved by sublingual and intravenous nitroglycerine. He was discharged from the hospita...

To investigate temporomandibular joint (TMJ) involvement signs such as muscle pain, the ratio of masseter and temporal activity, mouth opening width jaw deviation during in children adolescents with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), a group 32 subjects JIA control healthy were evaluated. Data collected clinically by palpation (masseters, anterior temporalis sternocleidomastoids) instrumental...

This study aimed to determine autonomic and jaw-muscle activities, and haemodynamic responses, to acute experimental mental stress in humans. Eleven healthy men (25.2 ± 3.0 years of age) and five healthy women (23.0 ± 3.7 years of age) performed a standardized mental stress task, the Paced Auditory Serial Addition Task (PASAT). Autonomic function, such as heart rate variability (HRV), and haemo...