TMJ Flashcards
What muscle does blowing?
Buccinator
What is the fusion of the joint called?
Ankylosis
What moves the jaw lateral and forward to the right?
Left medial and lateral pterygoid
Depressing the jaw against resistance uses what muscles?
Digastric and suprahyoid
Patients with what are more likely to develop TMD?
RA Pts
What is the procedure of choice for TMJ?
MRI
Myofascial bilateral stretch doc contacts where?
Stretch where?
Both angles of mandible
Caudally
Where is the tender point in masseter?
Treat how?
Inferior to zygomatic in belly of masseter muscle
Depress mandible, place hand on mandible and translate towards side of tender point until pain decreased 70%
How much does the mouth normally open?
3-6cm
What can indicate TMJ?
Bruxism
What muscle does snarl (doesn’t raise lateral angle)
Levator anguli oris
What muscle protrudes upper lip?
Zygomatic minor
What force is induced in a pterygoid fascial stretch?
May see what?
Superior and lateral
Tearing due to stimulation of sphenopalatine ganglion
C shape is unilateral and deviates to which side?
Side of SD
What is a class 3 tooth occlusion?
Lower 1st molar anterior to posterior
Underbite