CONTEXT Cardiac pain may radiate to the face and lead patients to seek dental care. Dentists may contribute towards the diagnosing of ischemic heart disease and thus refer patients for cardiological evaluation. CASE REPORT A 50-year-old female patient was referred to a dentist for evaluation of a suspected temporomandibular disorder after repeated visits to medical emergency departments due t...

This paper describes a case of a young patient who sought help because of pain in the right temporomandibular joint (TMJ). She also reported increasing of pain during chewing. Clinical examination revealed limited mouth opening with uncorrected deviation to the ipsilateral side. Palpation of the lateral pole of the right condyle discovered crepitus, and maximum assisted opening elicited a repor...

Medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaw (MRONJ) is a rare but serious complication that can damage jawbone. It occur after treatments like pulling tooth or treating severe gum disease. affects some people who are taking have taken medications to protect bones. These medications, bisphosphonates, may be used at high doses help manage bone cancer other types spread bone. They also prescribed ...

Eosinophilic granuloma of the jaw is rare and preferably located within the posterior mandible. In this study, we report a case of multiple eosinophilic granuloma of the jaw in a 22-year-old man. This patient consulted to our hospital due to left-posterior maxilla pain that lasted for one year. X-ray and CT scan revealed an osteolytic area in the left-posterior maxilla. Then, the lesion was res...

BACKGROUND To analyze the association between the OHIP-14 and the different subtypes making up the clinical and psychological axis obtained using the RDC/TMD. MATERIAL AND METHODS 407 patients treated at the TMD unit of the Andalusian Healthcare Service were administered the Spanish version of the Research Diagnostic Criteria for Temporomandibular Disorders questionnaire (RDC/TMD), together w...

The aim of this trial was to evaluate and compare perceived pain, discomfort, and jaw function impairment between orthodontic treatments combined with skeletal anchorage and treatment using conventional anchorage with headgear or transpalatal bar. A total of 120 adolescent patients in order to start orthodontic treatment were consecutively recruited and randomized into three groups with differe...

Background It has been proposed that allergy may be considered as one of the common associated conditions, like irritable bowel syndrome or migraine in fibromyalgia. Fibromyalgia is a clinical entity classified by the presence of chronic widespread pain in at least 11 of the 18 specified tender points and associated with symptoms like fatigue, irritable bowel, sleep disorder, chronic headaches,...

acute lymphoblastic leukemia (all) is the most prevalent hematological malignant tumor during childhood. unilateral infiltration into the gums is less prevalent and more often observed in the aml type. a 12-year-old girl with symptoms of pain and swelling in the buccal vestibule and also at the posterior part of the right palate of the maxilla was referred to a private dental office. the patien...

Trigeminal neuralgia was uncommon in people younger than 30 years of age. Only 1% cases reportedly occurring those 20 age, so that this case is quite rare. The diagnosis temporomandibular joint disorder (TMD) also present along with the trigeminal and confirmed by head TMJ MRI. This article describes a 17-years-old females who sought help because pain right side her face, from temple area down ...

A lthough there have been a number of studies that involved the function of jaw muscles, due to its deep placement, the action of the superior belly of the lateral pterygoid (SLP) muscle has not been studied widely. The electromyographic (EMG) activities of the superior and inferior bellies of the lateral pterygoid muscles have been shown to be reciprocal in humans’-‘,+ and rhesus monkeys. *-lo...