Modern diagnostics of masticatory system dysfunctions using coned beam tomography with radioscopy function
Journal Title: European Journal of Medical Technologies - Year 2016, Vol 11, Issue 2
Abstract
The disorders of the masticatory system, next to caries and periodontal disease, are a huge problem in modern dentistry in developed countries, including our own. The cause is the omnipresent stress that accompanies the patients everyday, and makes them more prone to developing harmful movement habits of the masticatory system, known as parafunctions. Prolonged parafunctional movements, particularly, occlusal parafunctions, lead to the overload changes in the joint, and increased risk of developing internal derrangement disorders of the TMJ and in due time degenerative joint disease, but also distant manifestatons, like neck, shoulder belt, cervical spine pain. These symptoms are often misleading to practitioners, and falsly diagnosed as the disorders of the particular painful area, whereas the actual cause lies within the masticatory system. The following article presents an innovative imaging method, by NewTom 5G XL Tomography, which is ideal for the TMJ imaging, at the same time minimising the radiation dose, but also has many interdisciplinarily useful applications.
Authors and Affiliations
Maciej Michalak, Łukasz Wiśniewski, Andrzej Bożyk
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