The indication of discal surgery for the patients with internal derangement of the temporomandibular joint and short term follow-up study

Abstract

Surgical treatment for internal derangement of the temporomandibular joint in 18 patients with 21 joints were done. The procedure included disk repositioning, disk plication, and diskectomy with or without arthroplasty.
Surgical skills were introduced, and a short-term follow up study of 1. 6 years or more on 12 patients with 13 joints is described.
Seven cases with eight TMJs were assesed as “excellent”, five cases with five joints were “goed” and/or “fair”, excluding one “poor” case, whereas no surgical complication or postoperative severe incomfortable episode was encounterd.