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RICHARD W. ALBERT, MD, DDS
Louisville

Arch Otolaryngol. 1983;109(3):199.

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To the Editor.—Marbach and Lipton state in the February ARCHIVES (1982;108:102-107) that "bite adjustment had no advantage over placebo" in the treatment of temporomandibular joint (TMJ) syndrome. Weinberg1 recommends occlusal adjustments as one of the treatment objectives. Other authors² also recommend occlusal adjustment for successful adjunctive treatment of TMJ dysfunction.

Marbach and Lipton also state that a bite adjustment appliance "functions essentially as placebo." The reference for that statement was an article written in 1972. More recent articles recommend the use of treatment prostheses.^3-7

Finally, the authors advised that surgery be performed in patients having ankylosis. In fact, multiple articles advise the use of surgery in TMJ disturbances causing pain (eg, perforation of a disk, chronic synovitis, flattening of the articular eminence,⁸ osteomyelitis,⁹ condylar exostosis,¹⁰ and synovial chondromatosis¹¹).

Temporomandibular dysfunction still presents a problem in diagnosis and treatment. Arthrography is just coming into play . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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