Prosthetic dentistry in the treatment of movement disorders: dyskinesias and other neurological abnormalities.
As long as the scope of dentistry is limited to teeth and supporting structures, their care and repair, probably no body of medical knowledge can be considered more traditional. However, a number of muscular and neurologic phenomena have been related to the dentition: unconventional dental prosthetic therapy has been shown to be effective in the treatment of temporomandibular joint disorders and movement disorders such as spontaneous orofacial dyskinesia and tardive dyskinesia. Although only anecdotal, the above results and an unanticipated event that occurred in one case of dystonia muscolorum deformans question everything that had been previously assumed about the limits of dentistry.
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Restorative Dentistry, College of Dentistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
D000818:Animals; D003757:Dental Implantation; D017266:Dental Prosthesis; D003817:Dentition; D020820:Dyskinesias / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008959:Models, Neurological; D009069:Movement Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*