Objectives: This study evaluates the condylar growth activity in 10 patients with functional posterior crossbite before and after correction, using the mandibular bone skeletal scintigraphy. Methods: Patients received endovenous injection of radioactive contrast (Technesium-99m labeling, sodium methylene diphosphate). After two hours, planar scintigraphic images were taken by means of a Gamma c...

This following case report describes the open reduction, internal fixation and the reconstruction of an extensive comminuted mandibular fracture with bilateral condylar fractures in a 19-year-old male patient with an intellectual disability and autistic disorder. He suffered fall trauma, resulting in shattered bony fragments of the alveolus and mandibular body between both mandibular rami, the ...

This paper evaluates the effects of treatment with a pumping technique and arthroscopic lysis and lavage, followed by rehabilitative training, on condylar head mobility of the temporomandibular joint (TMJ). We studied 32 TMJs in 19 patients suffering from chronic closed lock with severe adhesion. The results were compared between cases with adhesions concentrated in two areas: mostly in the pos...

Introduction The temporomandibular joint (TMJ) in carnivores is a ginglymoid (hinge) joint in which the preglenoid and postglenoid processes limit anteroposterior movements of the mandibular condyle, permitting almost exclusively rotation around a transverse axis (Becht, 1953; Maynard Smith & Savage, 1959; Noble, 1973; Freeman, 1979; Crompton, 1981). In contrast, the TMJ in anthropoid primates ...

The craniovertebral junction (CVJ) comprises the occiput, atlas, and axis and is visible in most magnetic resonance (MR) imaging studies of the brain. Craniometric measurements used in radiologic assessment of CVJ anomalies include the Chamberlain line, Wackenheim clivus baseline, Welcher basal angle, and atlantooccipital joint axis angle. Most anomalies of the occiput are associated with decre...

Contemporary posterior cruciate-retaining total knee designs have provided pain relief and improved knee function but have failed to reproduce the kinematics and stability of the normal nonarthritic knee. The Medial Pivot total knee design features a near constant radius of curvature of the femoral component. The tibial surface is highly congruent and asymmetric, permitting a medial pivot motio...

Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA) has been considered as a standard procedure for intractable pain in the end-stage degenerative arthritis of the knee and maintaining range of motion (ROM) to facilitate the ability to perform daily living activities. 1 Factors that have been associated with the change in ROM after TKA include preoperative ROM, implant design, patient characteristics, posterior femo...

Identification of fragmentary human remains is an integral par medico legal investigations. Occipital region commonly not affected in traumatic injuries and accidents due to its secluded position which makes it the part determination sex absence entire skeleton. condylar also most common area for degenerative neoplastic diseases. So thorough knowledge anatomy occipital condyle very essential du...

Abstract Aim Traditionally, the posterior condylar offset ration (PCOR) has been calculated from lateral radiographs however new evidence suggests that a measuring technique based on 3D imaging may be superior. MRI trialled, but no protocol standardised and evaluated for reliability. This study aims to create reproducible reliable as well exploring whether there are any morphological difference...