Clinical and MRI Finding of The Temporomandibular Joint Posterior Disk Displacement

Al-Azhar University

Status

Completed

Conditions

TMJ Disc Disorder

Treatments

Diagnostic Test: MRI

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04951895

AUAREC20190512-12

Details and patient eligibility

About

the study aimed to evaluate the clinical and MRI finding of TMJ with posterior disk displacement with predication of the risk factors

Full description

: the study aimed to evaluate the clinical and MRI finding of TMJ with posterior disk displacement with predication of the risk factors. Study design: this retrospective study included patients diagnosed as TMJ internal derangement and all the patients examined by MRI from 2008 to 2019. Cases with loss of continuity of articular disk or the posterior attachment of the disk were considered as positive cases.

Enrollment

900 patients

Sex

All

Ages

19 to 65 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

patients seeking treatment for TMD at Al-Azhar University Hospital and the outpatient clinic at the Faculty of Dental Medicine of Al-Azahr University

Exclusion criteria

Patients were included if they were older than 18 years and diagnosed with TMJD. criteria for this study included systemic diseases (the presence of polyarthritis or other rheumatic diseases), contraindications for MRI (e.g., implanted metal or medical devices, claustrophobia), the presence of neurologic disorders, head and neck cancer, oral submucous ﬁbrosis, a history of TMJ surgery, a history of previous nonsurgical treatment such as occlusal splints, and a history of joint injection with HA/PRP. Trauma patients with subcondylar fracture and patients with congenital and developmental disorders of the TMJ were also excluded from the study.