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Individual approach to splint therapy in the complex treatment of temporomandibular joint dysfunction

Navruz Khasanovich Aliev^a*

 
ABSTRACT:     Scientists around the world are studying the pathology of the temporomandibular joint (TMJ), including the causes, pathophysiological, morphological aspects, and clinical criteria for diagnosis and treatment. Among the adult socially active population, one of the most common pathologies of the dental system is muscular-articular dysfunction of the temporomandibular joint (TMJ). The treatment was carried out in 48 patients with diagnosed TMJ dysfunction at the age of 20 to 45 years. For the treatment of patients, a relaxing therapeutic and diagnostic articular splint was used. The patients were divided into 2 groups of 24 people each: for the first group of patients, a round-the-clock mode of wearing a splint was set, and for the second group, a 16-hour mode was set. One of the modern methods of correction and treatment of TMJ dysfunction is splint therapy, which involves the use of splint splints and allows you to consistently and selectively affect one or another level of disorders: occlusal, muscular, and articular. This ultimately forms a new myostatic jaw-holding reflex and builds the physiological biomechanics and neuromuscular activity of the speech apparatus and the stomatognathic system as a whole. With the correct selection of patients with symptoms indicative of muscle or occlusive dysfunction, splint therapy shows itself as an effective method that allows, with a full understanding of the biomechanics and functional physiology of the occlusal-muscular-articular complex, to effectively correct the neuromuscular state of the stomatognathic system towards it full balance.

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Received 30 Jun 2022, Accepted 23 Oct 2022