MRI assessment of temporomandibular disorders: an approach to diagnostic and therapeutic setting

作者：Summa S^*; Ursini R; Manicone P F; Molinari F; Deli R

来源：CRANIO-The Journal of Craniomandibular & Sleep Practice, 2014, 32(2): 131-138.

DOI：10.1179/0886963413Z.00000000021

• Temporomandibular joint
• TMD
• MRI

Aims: The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between the clinical and the radiological data obtained by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in patients with temporomandibular disorder (TMD).
Methodology: The study group included 17 patients with symptoms of TMDs. The radiological assessments before and after therapy was evaluated by MRI; in the clinical analysis, signs and associated symptoms have been assessed.
Results: With MRI before therapy, we were able to distinguish the specific type of TMD that each patient had. At the end of the treatment, a general improvement of the clinical status was noticed; MRI, however, showed the permanence of several degrees of condyle-disc incoordination in some patients.
Conclusions: Certainly TMDs can be diagnosed without MRI; nevertheless, MRI gives us the possibility to obtain objective data of the patients concerned. Symptoms recorded during a clinical evaluation cannot be the only terms of diagnosis; MRI provides objective data in the diagnostic and post-therapy phases.

• 出版日期2014-4