Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
- Volume 21 Issue 2
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- Pages.209-214
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- 1999
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- 2288-8101(pISSN)
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- 2288-8586(eISSN)
SURGICAL TREATMENT OF CHRONIC RECURRENT TMJ DISLOCATION WITH EMINOPLASTY THROUGH INTERPOSITIONAL BONE GRAFT
개재골 이식술을 이용한 만성재발성 악관절 탈구의 외과적 처치
- Kim, Seong-Gon (Dept. of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Jinhae Military Hospital) ;
- Choi, You-Sung (Dept. of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Jinhae Military Hospital)
- Received : 1999.03.04
- Accepted : 1999.03.17
- Published : 1999.06.30
Abstract
Chronic recurrent TMJ dislocation results in difficulty of mastication, speaking, and swallowing due to the limitation of the mandibular movement. Etiologic factors are considered as the looseness of the capsule and ligaments, the decrease of the articular eminence, condylar morphologic change, muscular disharmony near by TMJ, and the decrease of the vertical length of the mandibular ramus. Treatment approach has been suggested that surgical methods are selected for the correction of the etiologic factors when conservative treatments are not effective. Many surgical methods have been reported such as eminectomy, eminence augmentation, condylotomy, and zygomatic arch down fracture technique. We performed the eminence augmentation through interpositional bone graft in chronic recurrent TMJ dislocation. This method leads to favorable postoperative result without recurrence and complication, so we report the case with related references.