2019 Volume 39 Issue 3 Pages 207-215
Today temporomandibular disorder is defined as multifactorial disorder. When a patient with TMD presents with apparent occlusal abnormalities, Dentists, however, should not confine his or her intervention to the symptomatic conservative treatment in response to the patientʼs chief complaint, pretermitting the occlusal abnormalities. In order to reconstruct the occlusion by elimination of the cause of the dysfunction, to be carefully performed is a diagnosis of whether the dysfunction of the temporomandibular is related to an abnormality in the muscles of mastication or to an abnormality in the temporomandibular joint capsule, followed by reversible treatment and confirmation of remission. Presented in this report is a case of both temporomandibular joint disorder and degenerative temporomandibular disorder, as revealed by the differential diagnosis. By restoring jaw function and observing the stability of jaw movement, harmony of masticationrelated muscles was confirmed.
