The purpose of this study was to clarify the relationship between oral habits and symptoms of temporomandibular joint disorder in patients who had sought orthodontic treatment by analyzing their present and past history. The subjects were 57 female patients (average age: 23 years and 6 months old) who had visited the "Temporomandibular Disorder Section" in our orthodontic department. Their chie...

BACKGROUND: Hip Dysplasia is a frequent orthopedic disease that is characterized by early joint sublux- ation. The DARthroplasty technique is a two-part process that involves applying bone graft to increase the femoral head coverage with a low morbidity rate and the long term is known results. OBJECTIVES: This study was aimed to investigate the radiograph...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effectiveness of low-level laser therapy in the treatment of temporomandibular disorder and to compare treatment effects in myogenic and arthrogenic cases. METHODS Thirty-five patients were evaluated by magnetic resonance imaging and randomly allocated to active treatment (n=20) and placebo treatment (n= 15) groups. In addition to a daily exercise program, all pat...

The study was aimed at estimating the joint-rater reliability and applicability of Hindi version of ICD-10 IPDE that was obtained following a standard translation protocol. The instrument was administered to 22 non-psychotic patients by two raters. The average intraclass correlation for each item (0.89), number of criteria met per disorder (0.92) and dimensional scores (0.98) was high. Kappa fo...

Arthritis is an acute or chronic inflammation of joint, often accompanied by pain, swelling and stiffness and resulting from infection, injury. Pain is the most common symptom and is associated with bad functional outcomes. Different kinds of arthritis are, widely spread among the population that make them a clinical problem. Among those osteoarthritis (OA) is a chronic, degenerative disorder o...

results three hundred patients were eligible for the study. after 1 month, 62% of patients (186 patients) reported good pain relief [95% confidence interval (ci) 0.53, 0.7]; 8.6% (26 patients) reported excellent pain relief (95% ci 0.07-0.09); 20. 4% (61 patients) reported poor pain relief (95% ci 0.18-0.22), and 9% (27 patients) reported no pain relief (95% ci 0.08-0.099). the average pain num...

Background: Temporomandibular disorder (TMD) is a group of abnormalities in the temporomandibular joint area. multifactorial condition since multiple physiological and pathological conditions are cited as etiological factors. The clinical features include pain, clicking, deviation, limitation movement, may be associated with headache, neck ache, disturbance quality life. type treatment depends ...

Anorexia nervosa (AN) is associated with gut and non-gut symptoms e.g. orthostatic intolerance and fatigue syndromes. Elsewhere, joint hypermobility has been found in non-anorexic populations who have gut symptoms, orthostatic intolerance or fatigue syndromes. We therefore postulated that joint hypermobility may be a feature of AN.Patients from an inpatient Eating Disorders Unit and their first...

PURPOSE The goal of the study was to survey ankle joint disorder in male senior high school and college student basketball players based on the results of an ultrasonographic medical check-up of the ankle joint. MATERIALS AND METHODS The subjects were 17 senior high school student and 19 college student basketball players. Ultrasonography, evaluation of ATFL injury, and examination of the tal...

Temporomandibular Joint Disorder (TMD) is a non-dental musculoskeletal disorder that has complex and multifactorial etiology. The most frequent symptoms are pain in the masticatory muscles, front of ears, temporomandibular joint (TMJ); this can also be accompanied by clicking sounds locking. This study aimed to present case report trauma following odontectomy. A 22-year-old patient came with so...