BackgroundTemporomandibular disorders (TMD) cover a wide spectrum of disorder; myalgic, arthralgic and psychogenic. The procedure of TMJ arthrocentesis has a role in managing patients with arthralgic pain and limitation if they fail to respond to non‐surgical therapy.MethodThe patient records of a single private specialist OMS were searched over the 9‐year period of 2006–2014 to identify patients who had arthrocentesis as part of their multidisciplinary management. The detailed demographic, diagnosis, pre and post arthrocentesis procedure were identified and put on a database. Appropriate statistics were performed.ResultsSeventy‐six patients had 115 arthrocentesis procedures performed in the study period. Fifty of 76 had improvement in their pain and 16 of 41 had an increased jaw opening of more than 10 mm. There were no complications or morbidity. Analysis of patient variables generally showed no correlations.ConclusionsTemporomandibular joint arthrocentesis has a role in the multidisciplinary, multimodality treatment of arthralgic TMD.

CLD remains prevalent in very low birthweight infants in the CPAP era. Oxygen requirement at 14 days is the strongest predictor of CLD. Infants requiring 30% oxygen or more while on CPAP at 14 days have a 60% risk of subsequent CLD or death.

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