Oral Health and Dental Management

Extracapsular supradiscal surgical procedure for temporomandibular joint internal derangement correction (Elsheikh technique)

4^th Asia Pacific Congress & Expo on Dental and Oral Health

July 27-29, 2015 Brisbane, Australia

Elsheikh Yasser Mohamed

Posters-Accepted Abstracts: Oral Health Dent Manag

Abstract:

Background: Internal derangement of temporomandibular joint represents a real challenge over the past decades and causes many functional and psychological problems, many procedures had been introduced for correction of this problem but the results were not satisfactory. Patients and methods: This study was carried out on 50 patients complaining of temporomandibular joint internal derangement requiring surgical treatment with different age groups ranging from 13 to 50 years, 47 of them were females. In this study, we introduced a new procedure which composed of two parts (done in one stage) to alleviate the derangement problem (ELSHEIKH TECHNIQUE). Results: The results were very promising based on objectives and subjective remarks.