Occlusal discomfort syndrome

Abstract

One of the patients with difficulty, there is a case to complain of discomfort or abnormal sense of occlusion, the dentist is able to encounter patients with objective findings that can not be confirmed. Usually, although confirmation is using articulating paper, wax, and silicone materials, no abnormalities found in the state especially occlusal contact. In addition, for the insistent demand of the patient to the discomfort occlusion, the dentist may easily gone the occlusal adjustment. As a result, not only does not improve the patient’s complaint, its symptoms may even also be worse in reverse. And the relationship of trust between the patient and the dentist will break. And it may even be caught in a direction unfavorable unexpected. For discomfort related to occlusion, in clinical practice guidelines committee in Japan Prostjodontic Siciety, creating clinical practice guidelines related to occlusal dysesthesia were studied.
In the development of clinical practice guidelines, we have attempted to formulate guidelines created by a panel of the Commission, there are few high-quality paper sufficiently related to occlusal dysesthesia, did not lead to the creation of clinical practice guidelines. Therefore, a consensus meeting held on occlusal discomfort as Japan Prosthodontic Society, examined the appropriate designation of this disease. From the results of the pre-survey, this disease has to be called and “occlusal discomfort syndrome”.
For the purpose of indicating the direction of research activities and creating clinical practice guidelines in the future, the position paper of this time, a multi-center was carried out on the current situation and the course of dental treatment up to this syndrome patients uncomfortable occlusion literature and one of the few in the past was created from the findings of a patient with.