title: Facial asymmetry: recognition of TMD.
abstract: For many years researchers and clinicians have been aware of the varying presenting signs and symptoms common in the TMD patient. The symptom-complex frequently includes preauricular pain; cephalgia (predominantly frontal, temporal, occipital, vertex, retro- and periorbital); cervicalgia (immobility/stiffness); otalgia (congestion, vertigo, tinnitus). The most prominent signs are those of joint sounds (popping, click and crepitus due to disc displacement with reduction and/or osseous breakdown); restricted mandibular excursion (disc displacement without reduction); and mandibular deviation/deflection (disc(s) displacement).
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Steed
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005146:Facial Asymmetry / Q000209:etiology*; D005157:Facial Pain / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008335:Mandibular Condyle / Q000473:pathology*; D011862:Radiography, Panoramic; D016059:Range of Motion, Articular; D013705:Temporomandibular Joint Disorders / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*