Volume 17 - Issue 1

The purpose of this study was to document compliance to treatment follow-up for facial pain patients referred for outside services. In addition, we generated a multidimensional model of the psychosocial constructs associated with chronic pain to determine whether these factors were predictive of compliance across recommended therapy modalities or with an overall measure of compliance. These constructs included pain report, depressive symptoms, anxiety, cognitive coping strategies, and physical activity reduction. The sample consisted of 80 ...

The objective of this study was to assess and compare the frequency of some joint disorders in 130 CMD+bruxing behavior patients, 66 CMD/nonbruxing behaviors patients referred for diagnosis and treatment to the Center for the Study of craniomandibular Disorders and 130 control subjects seeking routine dental care. Both patients and controls were consecutive referrals to the clinic occurring ...

This study of temporomandibular disorder (TMD) treatment outcomes examines 274 consecutive patients in five diagnostic categories and a 25 patient comparison group to determine relative levels of symptom improvement. Employing a psychometric outcome measure, the TMJ Scale, it was found that patients receiving active TMD treatments manifest statistically significant symptom improvements. Untreated patients reported minor and statistically insignificant symptom variations ...

The medial aspects of ten adult TMJs were dissected using an inferior, rather than the more traditional lateral approach. Additionally, five 25 mm3 cubes of cadaver tissue with the mandibular condyle at their center were serially cryosected and photographed. Axial MRI scans were also taken of the TMJs of two living subjects. A band of fibromuscular tissue was found to ...

Patients with very advanced degenerative disease, ankylosis, post-traumatic condylar destruction, and multi-operated patients may be candidates for joint replacement with fossa and condylar prostheses. Great advances have been made in developing biocompatible materials, improved designs for patient-fitted prostheses. These devices have treated internal derangement cases after multiple surgical and nonsurgical treatment failures, as well as restoring form and function following the removal of failed Vitek Proplast-Teflon (Houston, Texas) containing temporomandibular joint implants.This paper will ...

Children [N = 540, age 5.1 ± 0.72 (SD)], were tested for association between temporomandibular (TM) joint sounds and symptoms of TM disorder (TMD). The prevalence of TMJ sounds as found by auscultation and confirmed by self-report was 16.7%. There was significant association after Bonferroni correction between the presence of TM joint sounds, as reported by the children, and all but one of the eleven pain/dysfunction variables. There was significant association also between ...

Several studies have shown that headaches are associated with patients who have temporomandibular disorders (TMD) compared with non-TMD patients. None of these studies separated the patients by gender or controlled for TMD in the two groups of patients. This study compared a TMD group of patients and a non-TMD group for recent headache symptoms, TMD symptoms and for gender differences ...

This paper explores the current status and the future of efforts to establish parameters of disability for the odontostomatognathic functional system (“the teeth, mouth, jaws and related structures as they subserve the functions of mastication, deglutition, digestion, speech, facial expression, respiration, sexual activity, appearance and posture”). Illness, disorders, disease or injuries involving this functional system include a broad spectrum of ...