Open AccessAssessment of treatment response to splint therapy and evaluation of TMJ function using joint vibration analysis in patients exhibiting TMJ disc displacement with reduction: A clinical study
Author(s) -
Jyoti Devi,
Mahesh Verma,
Rekha Gupta
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
indian journal of dental research/indian journal of dental research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.277
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1998-3603
pISSN - 0970-9290
DOI - 10.4103/ijdr.ijdr_154_16
Subject(s) - medicine , temporomandibular joint , wilcoxon signed rank test , splint (medicine) , splints , orthodontics , context (archaeology) , statistical significance , visual analogue scale , dentistry , mann–whitney u test , surgery , paleontology , biology
Context, Aim, and Objectives: Diagnosis of temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disc displacement with reduction (DDR) is difficult. Literature combining different subjective parameters of TMJ function with an objective evaluation of TMJ function using joint vibration analysis (JVA) is limited. Hence, the study was planned to diagnose temporomandibular disorder accurately, to do a subjective and objective evaluation of TMJ function, and to assess the effectiveness of different types of splint therapy over the conventional anterior repositioning appliance (ARA) group.