TMJ/Facial Pain Flashcards
TMJ Ligaments
- Attaches medial/lateral, keeps disc/condyle together,
- Contains synovial fluid, attaches from neck up to eminence and fossa
- Inner horizontal part limits posterior movement, outer oblique limits rotation
- Limits excessive mouth opening
- Collateral: Attaches medial/lateral, keeps disc/condyle together,
- Capsular: Contains synovial fluid, attaches from neck up to eminence and fossa
- Temporomandibular: Inner horizontal part limits posterior movement, outer oblique limits rotation
- Sphenomandibular: Limits excessive mouth opening
TMJ blood supply
Posterior - Masseteric
Anterior - Maxillary, STA
TMJ innervation
Auriculotemporal
Scintigraphy
Isotope for bone remodeling (taken up by what cell?)
Isotope for inflammation, good for osteomyelitis
Technetium 99, osteoclasts
Gallium 67, tumor cells, inflammatory cells
Non-surgical Rx management TMD
5 medicine classes, common med and dose
- (NSAIDs): 600 mg of ibuprophen four times daily, 500 mg of naproxen twice daily
- Steroids: Medrol Dosepak (P”zer)
- Muscle relaxants: 5 to 10 mg cyclobenzaprine TID
- Antidepressants: Reduces muscle tension; 10 mg amitriptyline QID
- Anxiolytics: Reduces muscle tension; 0.25 mg alprazolam BID or 5 mg diazapam QID
3 splints for non-surgical TMD
- Stabilization Splint: flat, full coverage, prevents grinding only
- Modified Hawley: anterior teeth coverage, prevents grinding and clenching
- Repositioning splint: full coverage, incline to guide mandible anteriorly. Must monitor for shifting dentition
OA vs RA in TMJ
- Age
- Prevalence
- Duration of morning stiffness
- Swelling
- Speed of onset
- Unilateral vs bilateral
OA
- older age
- 8-16% OA have TMJ involvement
- AM stiff <1 hr
- No swelling
- Gradual onset
- Often unilateral
RA
- Any age
- 50% RA have TMJ involvement
- AM stiff >1 hr
- Swelling, pain, stiff
- Rapid onset (weeks)
- Often bilateral
JRA
- Age
- Diagnosis
- Labs (3 key labs)
- What % JRA have TMJ involvement
- Tx
- 1-12 yrs old
- Clinical, PE, Rad: progressive class II with open bite, bird beak deformity, condyle resportion, pain, limited function, preauricular swelling
- RA factor 20% of patient’s, ANA 60-80% of patients, Elevated ESR
- 50% JRA have TMJ involvement
- NSAIDS, antirheum agents, surgery once disease controlled
RA synovial fluid findings
Cloud
Reduced Viscosity
WBC >20,000
Psoriatic Arthritis
- clinical triad
- Treatment
- What % of people with cutaneous psoriasis have psoriatic arthritis
- psoriasis, erosive arthritis, negative RF
- Medical only: NSAIDS, steroids, disease modifiers
- 33%
Reactive Arthritis (Reiter Disease)
- Triggered by:
- Triad
- Triggered by infection: intestinal, STD
- Triad: Cannont:
- Climb (arthritis)
- See (Uveitis)
- Pee (urethritis)
Infectious arthritis
- Local etiologies
- Systemic etiologies
- Lab findings
- Key physical findings
- Treatment
- Ear/mandible infection, trauma
- Hematogenous spread of: Gohnorrhea, syphyllis, TB, actinomyces
- Leukocytosis, TMJ aspirate culture
- Preauricular skin warm, erythema
Still Disease
- Similar to what disease
- Gender/Age
- Diagnosis
- Lab findings
- Similar to JRA except boys
- Boys, <5yo
- Fever, joint swelling and pain, hepatosplenomegaly, lymphadenopathy
Gout vs Pseudogout
- Crystal type and shape
- Birefringence
- Imaging
- Lab values
- Gout - needle shapes
- pseudogout - rhomboid shape
- Gout - Monosodium urate monohydrate
- pseudogout - Calcium pyrophosphate dehydrate
- non-specific chronic destruction, intracapsular calcification
- Gout - elevated serum uric acid
Gout vs Pseudogout
- etiology
- risk factors
- age/gender
- affected joints
- prophylaxis
- Gout - excess uric acid production/undersecretion
- Pseudogout - excess inorganic pyrophosphate
- Gout - purine rich diet, EtOH, diuretics
- pseudogout - RA, hypothryroid, hyperparathyroid,
- Gout - Males 40+
- pseudogout - Females 60+
- Gout - small joints of hand, feet, elbow, knee
- pseudogout - TMJ, triangular ligament of hand, knee meniscus
- Gout - Colchicine, low-purine diet
- pseudogout - Colchicine
High Purine foods
- Foods high in purine include organ meats, bacon, anchovies, venison, veal, goose and yeast. Certain seafood
- Mushrooms, black gram, beans, peas, lentils, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, aubergine and spinach.
- Yeast
Disc Displacement %
Anterior
Posterior
Medial rotation
Anterolateral
- Anterior 45%
- Posterior <15%
- Medial Rotation 30%
- Anterolateral 11%
Synovitis mediators
- What is released
- Affect of each
- Prostaglandin E
- Leukotriene B4
- Both cause vasodilation with edema/hyperemia
Wilkes Classification
Common stages
- Painful click
- Disc perforation
- Moderate bony changes
- Complete disc displacement without reduction
- Occasional painful click
- Painful click - Stage II
- Disc perforation - Stage V
- Moderate bony changes - Stage IV
- Complete disc displacement without reduction - Stage III
- Occasional painful click - Stage I
Arthrocentesis
- Rate of success
- 80-85% successful
Stage of Acute Synovitis
- Type 1
- Type 2
- Type 3
- Type 4
- Type 1: Minimal vasodilation, no hyperemia
- Type 2: Moderate vasodilation, early hyperemia
- Type 3: Considerable vasodilation, moderate hyperemia
- Type 4: Total hyperemia, completely obliterates vascular patterns
Hemimandibular Hyperplasia vs Elongation
- Why is there a crossbite and chin deviation in one type?
- Why is there open bite in other type
- Cross bite and chin deviation in Elongation because mandibular length is increased
- Ipsilateral posterior open bite in hyperplasia
TMJ Ankylosis Classification
- Topazian
- Sawhney
Topazian: Inferior extension of ankylotic bone
- stage 1: bone limited to condyle
- stage 2: bone extends to notch
- stage 3: bone extends to coronoid
Sawhney: Sequence of fibrous adhesions to relacement of joint with bone
- type 1: fibrous adhesions
- type 2: bony fusion (usually only at lateral aspect)
- type 3: bony bridge between ramus and arch/temporal bone
- type 4: joint replaced with bony mass
Anklysosis: 4 etiologies
- Trauma example?
- Infection exampl?
- Inflammation examples?
- Surgery example?
Anklysosis: 4 etiologies
- Trauma (esp pediatric condyle)
- Infection (otitis media, suppurative TMJ arthritis)
- Inflammation (RA, ankylosing spondylitis)
- Surgery (post op complication TMJ surgery)
TMJ tumor types
- 3 categories of TMJ tumors
- Rank in order of occurence
Pseudotumor 70%
Malignant neoplasm 20%
Benign neoplasms 10%
TMJ neoplasms - radiographic findings
- Radioopacity: likely lesions
- Radiolucency: likely lesions
- Mixed: likely lesions
- Radioopacity: likely pseudotumor
- Radiolucency: likely benign/malignant
- Mixed: Osteoid Osteoma, osteosarcoma