Volume 27 - Issue 4

Meeting Mariano Rocabado in 1974

It was in Montreal during 1974 that Mariano Rocabado, unregistered as is typical in much of South America, arrived at my ten-day seminar on the spine and extremities and asked to be admitted. “I know the class is full, but I have come all the way from Chile,” he stated. The sincerity of the man was not lost on me and so, he was admitted.

Two days into the program ...

The Road Less Traveled

Robert Lee Frost was born March 26, 1874 in San Francisco. He was a very successful writer and poet. Having sold his first poem, My Butterfly, to “The New York Independent” for $15 in 1894, he was on his way to becoming the most celebrated poet in North America, winning the Pulitzer Prize four times (still a record). While all of Frost's poems have received wide acclaim, including the one ...

Sleep Medicine for Dentists:

A Practical Overview

Edited by LaVigne, G.L.,

Cistulli, P.A., Smith, M.T.

Quintessence Publishing Co., Inc.

210 pp., $68.00

ISBN 978-0-86715-487-0

This is a very difficult review to write. I was really looking forward to reading this book. I do not know Michael Smith. I regard Peter Cistulli as an icon in sleep dentistry. I do know and respect him as a researcher, clinician, and teacher. I have ...

Craniomandibular dysfunction (CMD) symptoms occur frequently in violin/viola and wind players and can be associated with pain in the neck, shoulders and arm. In the current study, the effect of oral splint treatment of CMD on reducing pain and symptoms especially in these areas was investigated. Thirty (30) musicians undergoing CMD treatment with oral splints participated in this study. They completed a questionnaire that addressed CMD symptoms, localization of pain, and subjective changes in ...

The aim of this study was to verify possible relationships between global body posture and temporomandibular joint internal derangement (TMJ-id), by comparing 30 subjects presenting typical TMJ-id signs to 20 healthy subjects. Body posture was assessed using the analysis of muscle chains on several photographs. Results show a higher frequency of lifted shoulders (p=0.04) and of changes in the antero-internal hip chain (p=0.02) in the test group, but no further differences ...

Limited studies have demonstrated that low intensity laser therapy (LILT) may have a therapeutic effect on the treatment of myofascial pain syndrome (MPS). Sixty (60) patients with MPS and having one active trigger point in the anterior masseter and anterior temporal muscles were selected and assigned randomly to six groups (n=10): Groups I to III were treated with GaAlAS (780 nm) laser, applied in continuous mode and in a meticulous way, twice a week ...

Balance is defined as a state of equilibrium or parity characterized by cancellation of all forces by equal opposing factors. This is the act of maintaining an upright posture (static balance) or in locomotion (dynamic balance or gait). This system depends on vestibular function, vision, and proprioception to maintain posture, to navigate in one’s surroundings, to coordinate motion of body parts, to modulate fine motor control, and to initiate the vestibuloculomotor reflexes. These parts ...

The present study was undertaken to investigate the correlation between condylar position, articular eminence morphology, and mandibular deviation using helical CT in a group of 22 female subjects (mean age 19.2±5.3 years) with mandibular deviation. There was a significant difference in the angles of the posterior-slope of the articular eminence (PSA) between the deviated (44.27±10.29°) and non-deviated (42.50±9.90°) sides. Mandibular deviation also correlated significantly with both ...

To determine the frequency and degree of orofacial myofunctional disorder (OMD) in a sample of patients with temporomandibular disorder (TMD), the dental records of 240 patients with a diagnosis of TMD were reviewed. Mean patient age and mean TMD duration, gender frequency, complaints, and signs and symptoms were calculated. The results showed that the sample studied was quite characteristic of a TMD group. The presence of the following signs/symptoms was significant: muscular pain, TMJ ...

A case of unilateral coronoid hyperplasia successfully treated by coronoidotomy with prolonged postoperative physiotherapy and reveal the postoperative radiographic changes between the sectioned part of the coronoid process and the mandibular ascending ramus is described. The patient was a 28-year-old man whose maximum mouth opening was 30 mm. A coronoidotomy of the left coronoid process was performed. Nine days after surgery, the patient started physiotherapy with a HU-OSr appliance. After coronoidotomy and physiotherapy, the maximum ...