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3. T.M.J = GINGLYMOARTHRODIAL JOINT
• GINGLYMUS – A HINGE (ROTATION)
• ARTHRODIAL – SLIDING MOVEMENT
CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES:
• DIARTHROIDAL, NONWEIGHT-BEARING JOINT
• BOTH THE JOINTS ARE INTERDEPENDENT
• BOTH ARE INTERDEPENDENT ON DENTITION
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4. TMJ
BONY COMPONENTS
1. Glenoid fossa
2. Condylar head
3. Articular eminence
MUSCLES
1.
2.
3.
4.
Muscles of mastication
Muscles attached to the joint
Muscles of facial expression
Muscles of the neck
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SOFT-TISSUE
COMPONENTS
1. Articular disk
2. Joint capsule
3. Ligaments
6. GLENOID FOSSA
Single layer of cortical bone separates fossa from
middle cranial fossa – Temporal lobe of brain
Covered by thin fibrous layer
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7. CONDYLAR HEAD
Oval
– mediolaterally – ‘Rugby ball’, ‘Date-stone’
15-20
mm long (M-L); 8-10 mm wide (A-P);
Medial
pole > lateral pole
Posterior
surface > anterior surface
Articulating
surface – Fibrous tissue
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8. ARTICULAR EMINENCE
Sigmoid shape, Anterior & posterior slopes
Saddle – shaped in coronal section – concave mediolaterally
With disc, guides mandibular movement during jaw opening
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9. SOFT TISSUE COMPONENTS:
1. DISC –
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FIBROCARTILAGENOUS, AVASCULAR
•
SEPARATES JOINT INTO TWO COMPARTMENTS
•
3 REGIONS:- CENTRAL ZONE- 1 MM THICK, ANTERIOR
ZONE- 2MM THICK, POSTERIOR ZONE-3MM THICK AND
BILAMINAR
•
•
INNERVATED BY AURICULOTEMPORAL NERVE
SUPERIOR SURFACE IS CONCAVO-CONVEX & INFERIOR IS
CONCAVE
•
ATTACHED TO THE MEDIAL AND LATERAL POLES OF THE
CONDYLE
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12. 2. CAPSULE ATTACHED TO THE ARTICULAR MARGINS OF THE HEAD OF
THE CONDYLE & TO THE MARGINS OF THE GLENOID FOSSA
AND ARTICULAR EMINENCE
Fibrous, non-elastic membrane surrounding the
TMJ
Attachments
Post – squamotympanic fissure
Lat – glenoid fossa
Ant – articular eminence
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13. Thin
structure – reinforced by ligaments
Inner
surface lined by syanovial membrane
Functions:
Seals
joint space
Provides
passive stability
Active
stability - proprioceptive nerve-endings in
capsule
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16. FUNCTIONAL LIGAMENT
Fan-shaped reinforcement of lateral
wall of capsule
Obliquely from outer surface of
articular eminence & zygomatic
process
2 parts
Outer oblique – outer surface of
condylar neck
Inner horizontal – lateral pole of
condyle & lateral margin of disk
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17. Functions:
1.
Prevents lateral (same side) & medial (contralateral)
dislocation
2.
3
Oblique part – resists excessive dropping of condyle
- limits extent of mouth –opening/rotational
opening – unique to humans
- prevents impingement on vital
submandibular & retromandibular
structures
Horizontal part – limits posterior movement of
condyle
& disc
- protects RDT from trauma
- protects lateral pterygoid from
overlengthening or extension
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18. SPENOMANDIBULAR LIGAMENT
– no role
STYLOMANDIBULAR LIGAMENT
– limits excessive
protrusive movements
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19. SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE LINES BOTH THE CAVITIES & FILLED WITH SYNOVIAL
FLUID
Functions:
Medium for metabolic exchange to avascular articulating
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friction
20.
LATERAL PTERYGOID
MUSCLE – 2 HEADS;
– UPPER HEAD
ATTACHED TO THE
DISC,
– LOWER TO THE
CONDYLE
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21. INFERIOR LATERAL PTERYGOID
Both –protrusion
Unilateral – mediotrusive on same side
With depressors – lowers mandible
- condyles glide downward & forward on articular eminence
SUPERIOR LATERAL PTERYGOID
Does not act with inferior head
Protractor of disk
Power stroke with elevators
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27. TMJ DISLOCATION
• INCIDENCE – 3 %, HIGHER IN FEMALES
• MOST COMMONLY IN ANTERIOR DIRECTION
• SUBLUXATION – INCOMPLETE DISLOCATION
• LUXATION = DISLOCATION
• RECURRENT DISLOCATIONS - REPEATED DISLOCATIONS
WITH NO STRONG PSYCHOLOGICAL COMPONENT
• HABITUAL DISLOCATIONS – AT THE WILL OF THE PATIENT
• UNILATERAL OR BILATERAL; ACUTE OR CHRONIC
• HYPERMOBILITY – PREDISPOSING FACTOR
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30. DIAGNOSIS
• GOOD HISTORY
• ASCERTAIN TYPE & DETERMINE CAUSE
• CLINICAL SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS
• PALPATION OF MUSCLES
• INVESTIGATIONS
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32. BILATERAL:
•
PAIN – TEMPORAL FOSSA
•
INABILITY TO CLOSE THE MOUTH
•
TENSE MASTICATORY MUSCLES
•
DIFFICULTY IN SPEECH
•
EXCESSIVE SALIVATION
•
PROTRUDED CHIN
•
OPEN BITE
•
DISTINCT HOLLOW IN FRONT OF THE TRAGUS
•
PROTUBERANCE ANTERIOR AND BELOW THE
ARTICULAR EMINENCE
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33. UNILATERAL:
•
MANDIBLE SWUNG AWAY FROM SIDE OF DL
•
CROSS & OPEN BITE - CONTRALATERALLY
•
PROTRUSIVE OCCLUSION
•
HOLLOW IN FRONT OF TRAGUS – INVOLVED SIDE
•
SEVERE PAIN IN THE INVOLVED SIDE
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35. NON SURGICAL TREATMENT
ACUTE DISLOCATIONS:
GOAL – RELIEF OF PAIN, ANXIETY, REDUCTION
& IMMOBILIZATION
• REASSURANCE OF THE PATIENT
• TRANQUILIZER / SEDATIVE
• MASSAGE OVER THE CORONOID PROCESS
• INJECTION OF L.A. INTO THE DEPRESSION
• MANIPULATION & REDUCTION
• IMMOBILIZATION FOR 4 WEEKS
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MOUTH OPENING
39. LONG STANDING DISLOCATIONS:
• MUSCLE SPASM & FIBROSIS
• MANIPULATION UNDER G.A.
• IMMOBILIZATION FOR 4 WEEKS
• MUSCLE RELAXANTS
• CLASS III ELASTICS
AIDS IN COMPLETE REDUCTION
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41. SURGICAL TREATMENT
INDICATIONS:
LONG STANDING DL
DISABLING RECURRENT DL
3 CATEGORIES:
• PROCEDURES TO LIMIT TRANSLATION
• ELIMINATION OF BLOCKING FACTORS
• COMBINATION PROCEDURES
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42. PROCEDURES TO LIMIT TRANSLATION
ANCHORING PROCEDURES:
• CAPSULORRAPHY
• CAPSULAR PLICATION
• LIGAMENTOPEXY
• FLAPS SECURED TO CAPSULE
• SLINGS BETWEEN CONDYLE & ZYGOMATIC PROCESS
• SECURING DISC TO CAPSULE
• ANCHORING CORONOID PROCESS TO ZYGOMA
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43. PROCEDURES TO LIMIT TRANSLATION
LATERAL PTERYGOID MYOTOMY:
• SUPERIOR BELLY IS CUT
• ELIMINATES FORCE RESPONSIBLE
BLOCKING PROCEDURES:
• CREATES AN OBSTACLE FOR THE CONDYLE
• SOFT TISSUE PROCEDURES
• BONY PROCEDURES
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50. INTERNAL DERANGEMENT OF TMJ
AN ABNORMAL RELATIONSHIP OF THE ARTICULAR
DISK TO THE MANDIBULAR CONDYLE, FOSSA &
ARTICULAR EMINENCE
• MENISCUS ASSUMES ABNORMAL POSITION
• ASSOCIATED WITH CLICKING
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56. CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS
HISTORY• PAIN
• CLICKS
• OCCLUSAL DISHARMONY
• HISTORY OF PREVIOUS TREATMENT
• PSYCHOLOGICAL EVALUATION
• ANY OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION
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57. CLINICAL EXAMINATION• OCCLUSAL DISHARMONIES
• INTER-INCISAL DISTANCE DURING MO
• RANGE OF MANDIBULAR MOVEMENTS
• MIDLINE DEVIATION
• CORRELATION OF CLICKING WITH PAIN & MO
• PALPATION OF JOINT & MUSCLES
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64. 1. MENISECTOMY
2. HIGH CONDYLECTOMY
3. CONDYLECTOMY
4. CONDYLOTOMY
• BASED ON FINDING OF CONDYLAR #
- ELIMINATION OF JOINT SOUND
• WARD (1961)- CLOSED CONDYLOTOMY –
CONDYLE ASSUMES NEW POSITION
5. EMINECTOMY• REMOVAL OF ARTICULAR EMINENCE
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