Dentistry and Craniofacial Research

Temporomandibular joint disorders: Challenge or everyday life in clinical practice

Joint Event on 3^rd International Conference on General Practice & Primary Care & 24^th International Conference on Dental Public Health & Dental Hygiene
August 16-17, 2018 Madrid, Spain

Ewa Ferendiuk, Malgorzata Pihut and Magdalena Orczykowska

Jagiellonian University, Poland

ScientificTracks Abstracts: J Dent Craniofac Res

DOI: 10.21767/2576-392X-C2-005

Abstract

Temporomandibular joint disorders are a common problem in clinical practice. Therapy of TMJ-dysfunctions using occlusal splints and other supporting methods are only pre-treatment stage of subsequent occlusion reconstruction. The key to success in rehabilitation patients with functional disorders is to create the correct jaw placement with condyles centralization that will guarantees proper functioning of masticatory system. The aim of study is to present methods of comprehensive treatment patients with TMJ-disorders based on own clinical cases. The work described the combined orthodontic, prosthetic and implant-prosthetic treatment patients with functional disorders of masticatory system.

Biography

Ewa Ferendiuk graduated in Faculty of Medicine at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow/Poland. She is a member of team of the Consulting Room of Temporomandibular Joints Dysfunction, Jagiellonian University Medical College. She conducts training for students in the field of prosthetics, and author of several publications in national and international journals. She is a participant of conferences, courses and trainings in the field of TMJ-disorders, dental prosthetics, esthetic dentistry and implant prosthetics. She is a member of Polish Society of Temporomandibular Joint Disorders, International Team of Implantology, Society of Physiotherapists and Polish Dental Society.

E-mail: ewa.ferendiuk@hotmail.com