Oral Health and Dental Management

The role of the prosthesis in causing dysfunction of the masticatory system

7^th Global Dentists and Pediatric Dentistry Annual Meeting

March 31- April 01, 2016 Valencia, Spain

Houari Hakima

University of Algiers, Algeria

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Oral Health Dent Manag

Abstract:

The occlusion was long considered factor responsible for TMD, but this concept was recently questioned. The prosthesis is strongly associated to the occlusion, it may be regarded as a disturbing factor of this dernière if she is not appropriate or unbalanced, so may be regarded as a factor responsible for TMD. In front of this situation controversial can we identify a relationship between the TMD and the prosthesis? The aim of this study was to identify the relationship between the prosthesis and the occurred TMD to reach this goal a clinical study performed in public institutions in Oran (2015) of 10 patients (8 women and 2 men). In 10 patients the TMD was present; prostheses were defective with the frequency of the absence of stable occlusion due to occlusal flat surfaces. A second consequence of this dental abrasion could be due to the factor represented by the reduction in the vertical dimension. This decrease can affect the elements constituting the masticatory system. The prosthetic occlusal adjustment has cured 100% in men and 12.5% among women without control of recurrence. Among women 87.5 has an excess of stress which can probably be responsible for no healing. We can see in the light of our investigation that TMD is probably the origin of the two factors, stress and instability occlusal prothtique. This result can be either confirmed or disprove by an analytical case-control study that we are trying to achieve it or a cohort study.

Biography :

Email: hakimaouari@yahoo.fr