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Conservative Management Options for Dislocation of the Temporomandibular Joint

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Dislocation of the TMJ affects a wide demographic (up to 5% of the population) and can be attributed to a wide variety of causes including excessive mouth opening (e.g. yawning, vomiting, seizure), trauma (e.g. flexion-extension injury to the mandible, intubation, endoscopy, dental extraction), connective tissue disorders (e.g. Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Marfan’s syndrome) and psychogenic causes (e.g. habitual dislocation, tardive dyskinesia) as possibly the majority of cases [1]. Single episodes of TMJ dislocation are often managed by manual reduction techniques (discussed elsewhere in this text) and require no further intervention. The terms “chronic”, “chronic recurrent” and “habitual” are interchangeable and used for cases in which repeated episodes of dislocation occur [2]. Other authors distinguish “acute”, “chronic” (i.e. persistently dislocated) and “recurrent”. Recurrent dislocations can be particularly troublesome and are the subject of discussion in the current chapter, which deals with conservative interventions to address these problems.

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Elledge, R.O.C., Speculand, B. (2018). Conservative Management Options for Dislocation of the Temporomandibular Joint. In: Matthews, N. (eds) Dislocation of the Temporomandibular Joint. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62652-9_5

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