The clicking painful temporomandibular joint. Use of arthrography in diagnosis.
Why does the clicking temporomandibular joint not lock, and the locked joint not click. Why is either of these conditions painful? Improved temporomandibular joint arthrography is able to delineate the problem and to direct surgical intervention appropriately, rather than toward the empirical remedies of the recent past.
D006801:Humans; D011859:Radiography; D013704:Temporomandibular Joint / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D013706:Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction Syndrome / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*