1991 Volume 29 Issue 3 Pages 614-618
The aim of this study was to examine the diagnostic effectiveness of frontal section FCR on TMJ for adolescent patients with TMJ dysfunction syndrome. The diagnostic effectiveness of frontal section FCR was examined by comparison with a diagnosis by means of sagittal section FCR.
The following results were obtained:
1. The condyle position in fossa and the morphological abnormality of the condyle could be diagnosed by frontal section FCR while a location of the articular disk could not be diagnosed.
2. In the comparison between the diagnosis by frontal section FCR and by sagittal section FCR, the concurrence of the vertical position of the condyle in fossa was 84.2% and the concurrence of prevalence on morphological abnormality of condyle was 81.6%.
It is suggested that the diagnosis of TMJ by FCR could be sufficiently done by only sagittal section FCR.
