Treatment of temporomandibular arthropathy
作者:
OLE COLLIN RASMUSSEN,
期刊:
European Journal of Oral Sciences
(WILEY Available online 1982)
卷期:
Volume 90,
issue 1
页码: 64-68
ISSN:0909-8836
年代: 1982
DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0722.1982.tb01524.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
关键词: jaws;mandible;osteoarthritis;temporomandibular joint
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
Abstract –The favourable spontaneous course of TMA indicates a conservative approach to treatment. One‐half of the present 119 patients were either not treated by physiatric measures only. One‐third of the patients were treated by pivotation, whereby TMJ pain was relieved within an average of 2 months. Pivotation seemed to prolong the spontaneous course of TMA. Steriods were injected intraarticularly in one‐fifth of the patients, whereby TMJ pain was relieved within an average of 5 d. There were, however, symptoms other than pain that tended to persist after steroid injection. The various treatments did not result in any lasting differences in mandibular mobility. Pivotation and steroid injection seemed to result in a higher frequency of irregularity of the mandibular condyle as seen in transpharyngeal radi
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