A new surgical classification for temporomandibular joint disorders.

摘要: The role of temporomandibular joint (TMJ) surgery is ill-defined, so a universal classification needed to collate the evidence required justify surgical interventions undertaken treat TMJ disorders. aim this article introduce new that divides disorders into 5 categories escalating degrees disease can be applied surgery. Using category scale from 1 5, with being normal, and referring catastrophic changes joint, will provide basis for enhanced quantitative descriptive data collection used in field research clinical practice. It hoped form what eventually become standard adopted by both researchers clinicians ultimately, based on rather than conjecture.