METHOD FOR TREATING THE SYNDROME OF TEMPOROMANDIBULAR ARTICULATION DYSFUNCTION Russian patent published in 2007 - IPC A61H1/00 

FIELD: medicine, stomatology.

SUBSTANCE: therapy should be carried out in two stages: during the fist stage a doctor who sits facing a patient's head from the side being opposite to pterypalatine fossa should ask the patient to open slightly the mouth and put a finger between a cheek and alveolar edge of maxillary bone, directs it up to the end and then - along pterygoid plate, passes pterypalatine fossa and stops at lateral pterygoid muscle. Then a patient should turn the head to the side that corresponds to this pterypalatine fossa and repeat several times the following phrase: "Nothing could be done", moreover, a doctor should gradually increase the pressure performed with a finger upon the tissue and such position should be remained till tissue relaxation, during 1.5-2 min During the second stage, doctor's hands should be on the sides of patient's head so, that ears and eyelids to be in palms. Moreover, TMA should be closed with fingers' bottoms by applying the tips of middle fingers, as hooks for capturing the angle of mandibula from both sides of mandibula it is important to fulfill steady cranial traction in cranial direction. The power of traction is steadily and slowly increased until the doctor feels the cessation of movement or alterations in TMA. Then doctor should continue to fulfill traction in cranial direction that leads to cranial and lateral movement of temporal bones, in 2-3 min doctor's palms should feel the cessation of the movement followed by traction of mandibula in caudal and ventral direction, about 2-3 min, until TMA unblocking and relaxation of soft tissue elements of TMA. The innovation enables to release temporal-parietal, temporal-main sutures, decompression of bilaminar area and, thus, improved TMA trophics and, also, favors the reconstruction of intraarticulation disk into correct position.

EFFECT: higher efficiency of therapy.

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