METHOD OF TREATING DENTAL PATIENTS WITH CHEWING MUSCULATURE DYSFUNCTION Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC A61N1/36 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine, namely dentistry, and aims at treating the patients suffering chewing musculature dysfunction. The 4 types of the chewing muscle state are pre-specified: type 1 - optimal state, type 2 - adaptive compensatory hypertrophy, type 3 - pathological hypertrophy, type 4 - functional decompensation. If observing the type 2 dysfunction, the patient is exposed to current pulses of frequency 15-30 Hz and intensity 8-10 mA. If observing the type 3 dysfunction, the exposure is characterized by frequency 40-60 Hz and intensity 5-8 mA. If observing the type 4 dysfunction, the exposure has pulse frequency 30-40 Hz and intensity 3-5 mA. The therapeutic sessions for the patients suffering the types 2 and 3 are conducted once a day for 15 min. The length for the patient suffering the type 4 dysfunction is 25 min; total number of the sessions is 5-10. The patient is exposed to percutaneous electric stimulation generated by Electronica EPB 50.01 apparatus.

EFFECT: method enables reducing the length of rehabilitation of the patients suffering the chewing musculature dysfunction ensured by selecting percutaneous electric stimulation modes for various types of dystonias.