A STUDY OF THE POSTERIOR SLOPE OF THE ARTICULAR EMINENCE IN PATIENTS WITH INTERNAL DERANGEMENT

악관절 내장증환자에서 관절돌기의 후방경사에 관한 연구

This study was designed to investigate the effects of the posterior slope of the articular eminence and the condylar angulation to the posterior slope of the articular eminence on internal derangement of TMJ. The materials consisted of 78 transcranial oblique lateral projections of 31 normal subjects and 47 internal derangement patients. The results were as follows: 1. The posterior slope of the articular eminences in normal group were larger than that in abnormal group, but there were not significant differences between each group about the condylar angulation to the posterior slope of the articular eminences. 2. The differences between in the right and left sides in patients who were affected unilaterally and bilaterally were larger than that in normal groups. 3, In patients affected unilaterally, there were not significant differences between affected joints and unaffected joints about the posterior slope of the articular eminence and the condylar angulation to the posterior slope of the articular eminence. 4. In abnormal group, there were significant differences between each group about condylar angulation to the post, slope of the articular eminence (ant. disk displacement without reduction > fibrous adhesion > ant. disk displacement with reduction), but not about the post, slope of the articular eminence.