[ACEsthetics] New Post/Thread Notification: Occlusion

Hello,

Kurt Laemmer DMD has just posted in the Occlusion forum of ACE Dental World under the title of Joint discomfort and facebow mounting.

This thread is located at http://www.acedentalforum.com/forum/threads/1433-Joint-discomfort-and-facebow-mounting

Here is the message that has just been posted:
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group, take a look at these images. This lady is in her mid 50's she has talked about a implant in th 19 site for years..she has what I would call moderate generalized wear. BUT, until recently she has been very comfortable joint-wise. LAtely she has been complaining of joint pain mostly on her left side. She is VERY stiff when I try to open and close her. I put her in a NTI. She feels better. She wears the NTI into the office early one morning and I take a facebow and do a Futar bite ( I take 3-4 bites) registration. The SAM 3 MPI has the dots in a pretty good position for recording a repeatable hinge axis. Look at how cockeyed the max cast is. I have never seen a case mount up like this.

Right now I do not have any sort of treatment plan....other than trying to keep her comfortable.

Any thoughts out there?


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