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Incidence of Internal Derangement of the Temporomandibular Joint in a Younger and Elderly Adult Population

The study was conducted on 72 younger subjects and 48 older subjects. Manual functional analysis comprising specific techniques of dynamic compressions and translations was used as a diagnostic procedure. A statistically significant difference both in the occurrence of symptoms of functional disorders in the temporomandibular joint (p<0.05) and in the occurrence of internal derangement of the temporomandibular joint (p<0.01) was found betwwen the younger and older group. The most frequent tissue-specific diagnoses were complete anterior disk displacement without reposition and osteoarthritis.

internal derangement; TMJ

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