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<blockquote data-quote="disturbed" data-source="post: 41670" data-attributes="member: 4763"><p>yea.. wrote that at 3 am. after making my thread. was tired, ment to say when the condyle is seated. occlusion compresses the jaw joint? what?? that disc prevents pain and lubricates the condyle, if you take a sonogram and see that the disc is displaced or gone than yes, keep the condyle on the eminence, but when the condyle is seated properly there are no muscle groups that can compress the joint to the point of TMD. <u>occlusion compresses the jaw joint?? can you explain that?</u> the condyle should be at the top of the fossa in the anterior most position where the bone is naturally buttressed, are you talking about the old method where people used to push back on the chin and say that was CR? so maybe you are saying if the anteriors are locked in pushing the jaw back causing pain? I was taught a LITTLE anterior freeway space is always a good thing anyways. I may still have some of my words mixed, I am pulling this from Dawson function classes I took years ago, I need to brush up but I am focusing on implants ATM. I may not talk the talk but I know how the jaw and muscles relate to occlusion and I believe in deprogramming and equilibration on large cases such as this, especially when there are only 2 teeth that the doc would have to equilibrate. If the jaw is stable there is NO reason for a nightguard, right?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="disturbed, post: 41670, member: 4763"] yea.. wrote that at 3 am. after making my thread. was tired, ment to say when the condyle is seated. occlusion compresses the jaw joint? what?? that disc prevents pain and lubricates the condyle, if you take a sonogram and see that the disc is displaced or gone than yes, keep the condyle on the eminence, but when the condyle is seated properly there are no muscle groups that can compress the joint to the point of TMD. [U]occlusion compresses the jaw joint?? can you explain that?[/U] the condyle should be at the top of the fossa in the anterior most position where the bone is naturally buttressed, are you talking about the old method where people used to push back on the chin and say that was CR? so maybe you are saying if the anteriors are locked in pushing the jaw back causing pain? I was taught a LITTLE anterior freeway space is always a good thing anyways. I may still have some of my words mixed, I am pulling this from Dawson function classes I took years ago, I need to brush up but I am focusing on implants ATM. I may not talk the talk but I know how the jaw and muscles relate to occlusion and I believe in deprogramming and equilibration on large cases such as this, especially when there are only 2 teeth that the doc would have to equilibrate. If the jaw is stable there is NO reason for a nightguard, right? [/QUOTE]
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