tailieunhanh - Báo cáo khoa hoc:" Occlusal management for a patient with aural symptoms of unknown etiology: a case report"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Occlusal management for a patient with aural symptoms of unknown etiology: a case report | Journal of Medical Case Reports BioMed Central Case report Open Access Occlusal management for a patient with aural symptoms of unknown etiology a case report Kengo Torii 1 and Ichiro Chiwata2 Address 1Torii dental clinic 1-23-2 Ando Aoi-ku Shizuoka-shi 420-0882 Japan and 2Chiwata dental clinic 2-1-3 Gofuku-cho Aoi-ku Shizuoka-shi 420-0031 Japan Email KengoTorii - wbs89508@ Ichiro Chiwata - wbs55314@ Corresponding author Published 12 September 2007 Received 30 June 2007 _ . - - lftP Accepted 12 September 2007 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2007 1 85 doi 1752-1947-1-85 This article is available from http content 1 1 85 2007 Torii and Chiwata licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Although the discrepancy between the habitual occlusal position HOP and the flat bite plate-induced occlusal position BPOP regarded as the muscular physiological reference position has been recently reported to be related to symptoms of temporomandibular disorders TMDs it still remains unclear whether the occlusal equilibration in the reference position is effective to resolve TMD-related discrepancy and symptoms. Aural symptoms otalgia tinnitus vertigo et cetera have been included under TMD symptoms. Methods To examine the effect of occlusal equilibration for the treatment of TMDs occlusal equilibration was performed for a patient with aural symptoms otalgia tinnitus and vertigo of unknown etiology in the right ear. An occlusal analysis was performed on this patient with dental models mounted on an articulator after relieving painful symptoms by an appliance therapy and a discrepancy was identified p . Occlusal equilibration in the BPOP was then