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Dental occlusal wear and degenerative disease of the temporomandibular joint: a correlational study utilizing skeletal material from a contemporary population
Author(s) -
EVERSOLE L. R.,
PAPPAS J. R.,
GRAHAM R.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
journal of oral rehabilitation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.991
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1365-2842
pISSN - 0305-182X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2842.1985.tb01545.x
Subject(s) - condyle , temporomandibular joint , crania , fossa , dentistry , joint disease , tooth wear , medicine , skull , dentition , orthodontics , population , tooth disease , attrition , anatomy , disease , osteoarthritis , pathology , alternative medicine , environmental health
Summary Forty crania and mandibles with intact dentition exceeding twenty‐six teeth and bilaterally intact condyle‐fossa apparatus were evaluated for attrition and degenerative joint disease. The skeletal specimens all represent a twentieth‐century contemporary American population from the Atkinson Skull Collection at the University of the Pacific School of Dentistry. While 23.1% of this sample exhibited some degree of erosive osseous degenerative wear involving the condyle or articular fossa and 76.3% exhibited occlusal tooth wear, no significant correlation between the degree of attrition and the severity of degenerative joint disease could be documented.