TREATMENT OF RECURRENT MANDIBULAR DISLOCATION .2. EMINECTOMY

Fourteen patients under patient eminectomy for recurrent mandibular di slocation. The clinical follow-up period ranged from 7 months to 5 yea rs. The function of the temporomandibular joint before and after emine ctomy was analysed clinically and by computer-aided axiography. There was no significant decrease in the condylar path angle postoperatively , though the articular eminence had been removed up to its most medial portion. Translatory border movements showed significant limitation s ix months after surgery and normal range of motion in the first and se cond year after the operation. Postoperative hypermobility of the cond yle was not observed.