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NEW REGIMEN FOR REDUCTION ANTERIORLY DISPLACED DISC IN PATIENTS WITH BRUXISM

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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Aim: This study is aimed to evaluate the efficacy of modified stabilizing splint in reduction anteriorly displaced disc in patients with bruxism.   Patient & Methods: This study was carried out on 26 patients, (14 femal&12male) .Patients complained of severe periauricular pain, inability of eating food, loudly unilateral clicking and se- vere temporal headache. Tenderness of masseter and temporalis muscles on palpation. All patients underwent unilateral arthrocentesis and delivered with modified stabilizing splint with posterior open bite 6, 4, 2 mm, two weeks for each consecutive posterior open bite.MRI was done for each patient preoperative, one and 12months postoperatively. Follow up period was one year.   Results: All patients showed relief of periauricular pain, no clicking in (18 patients). Percep- tible clicking in (8patients). MRI revealed recapture of the anteriorly displaced disc on the condyle in closed &opened positions postoperatively, while anteriorly displaced deformed disc remained in position postoperatively in (8 patients) . Conclusion: Arthrocentesis and modified stabilizing splint are effective in recapture of the anteriorly displaced non deformed disc on the condyle in patients with bruxism.

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10.21608/edj.2016.95216

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internal derangement, Stabilizing splint, Arthrocentesis, bruxism

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Walid

Last Name

Ghanem

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Ahmed

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Assistant Professor Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Dept., Faculty of Dentistry, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt

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62

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Issue 1 - January (Oral Surgery)

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14355

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2016-01-01

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2020-06-12

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2016-01-01

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865

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874

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0070-9484

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2090-2360

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Egyptian Dental Journal

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22 Jan 2023