Outcome of conservative treatments in patients with TMJ retrodiscal layer rupture or disc perforation.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study was aimed to investigate the efficacy of comprehensive conservative treatments in patients with temporomandibular joint (TMJ) retrodiscal layer rupture and/or disc perforation.

Materials and methods

This was a retrospective study of thirty-one consecutive patients with findings of TMJ retrodiscal layer rupture and/or disc perforation using magnetic resonance imaging. Comprehensive stomatognathic system assessments were performed. Comprehensive treatment modalities were applied to each patient and treatment outcomes were analyzed. The changes in patient-reported symptoms and comfortable mouth opening (CMO) and maximum mouth opening (MMO) distances were analyzed between the baseline and after treatment.

Results

Twenty-eight females and three males

SUBMITTER: Kong MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11782455 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature