1937/09/25 by LOUIS W. SCHULTZ, Louis W. Schultz · 4 citations
Dentistry · Health Professions · Medicine · #Bone Tumor Diagnosis and Treatments #Dentistry #Fibrous joint #Medicine #Occlusion #Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology #Orthodontics #Subluxation #Surgery #Temporomandibular Joint Disorders #Temporomandibular joint #Weakness
paper · doi:10.1001/jama.1937.02780390034012
openalex publication_date 1937/09/25 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Subluxation of the temporomandibular joint is fairly frequent. Its causes include congenital weakness of the capsule or malformation of the condyles or both. The joint may be strained or injured during general anesthesia, yawning, attempts by children to insert large objects into the mouth, and positional pressures during sleep. Heretofore the usual treatment has been merely rest. To safeguard a subluxating joint from undue motion for one whole year by bandaging is obviously impossible. Surgical treatment has been attempted with some success by the use of mattress sutures inserted laterally through the capsular ligament or by the removal of the meniscus. Physical therapy has been employed. Orthodontic appliances and prosthetic devices, pressure pads in front of the ears held in place for several months by a steel spring passing over the calvarium, wiring the jaws in occlusion and bandaging the jaws for months at a time—all these have been