Oral Health and Dental Management

New ultimate surgical procedure for temporomandibular joint internal derangement (Elsheikh technique)

2^nd International Conference and Exhibition on Dental & Oral Health

April 21-23, 2014 Crown Plaza Dubai, UAE

Elsheikh Yasser Mohamed

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 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 groupsranging 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: Results were very promising based on objectives and subjective remarks.