Full-Digital Workflow for TMDs Management: A Case Series

Abstract

Temporomandibular joint disorders (TMDs) have always been the subject of studies due to the difficult management of symptoms and the complex stabilization of the so-called therapeutic position. In this effort, digital technologies open new opportunities for such planning, allowing the clinician to digitally assess the situation and verify the stability of the new position from a functional point of view. The present case series shows examples of preliminary full-digital planning of treatment in TMDs patients made with the preliminary evaluation of the kinematic activity of the mandible through a digital device (Tech in motion™, ModJaw, Villeurbanne, France). Three TMD clinical cases are analyzed with full-digital techniques and workflow. A personalized treatment for each case was digitally planned on the base of proper kinematic tracings recorded for each patient, and intraoral appliances were digitally customized through a full-digital or semi-digital workflow. The digitalization of mandibular kinematic gave us the possibility of making a more “aware” diagnosis, especially in a dynamic key, and then it allowed a faster realization and execution of the intraoral appliance through a digital workflow, memorizing the therapeutic position and early checking the device, before its realization, on the real kinematics of the patient.

Analysis of Cervical Range of Motion in Subjects Affected by Temporomandibular Disorders: A Controlled Study

“…Over the years, the application of appropriate instruments such as goniometers or inclinometers and specific devices for the analysis of cervical ROM became more popular, and in the last decades, the use of digital accelerometers was also introduced and partially analyzed by the previous literature [27,38,39,[42][43][44].…”