[Clinical observation of the revisited patients with TMJ arthrosis after primary conservative treatment].

Abstract

We reported that the cases of TMJ arthrosis patients have increased recently, and obtained good results with conservative treatment. But there have been few reports about long-term observation and evaluation of their cases. So we examined the revisited 33 cases of TMJ arthrosis experienced in recent 4 years from 1984 to 1987. We observed the following items such as symptoms of onset, chief complaints and change of symptoms between primary and secondary visit, conditions in the interval term, outcome of treatment in each visit, and so on. Concerning to the symptoms at primary and secondary visit, we observed pain, limited movement and clicking sound, then the same symptoms at primary and secondary visit were found in 20 cases, symptoms of secondary visit took turn for the remission were found in 4 cases, symptoms were changed in 3 cases and the worsened were 6 cases. As for the effect and progress of treatment, 18 cases were cured in primary treatment and same result was shown in secondary visit.