Electromyographic Silent Periods and Jaw Motion Parameters: Quantitative Measures of Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction
- 1 March 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Dental Research
- Vol. 56 (3) , 249-253
- https://doi.org/10.1177/00220345770560031001
Abstract
The purpose of this research was to compare, in the subjects, the duration of the EMG silent period with jaw motion error. The results indicate that both jaw motion error and silent period duration are large in patients with TMJ-muscle-pain dysfunction, both are small in normal subjects, and both are small in successfully treated patients. There is a statistically significant correlation (r = 0.91; P < 0.01) between the two diagnostic parameters of TMJ-muscle-pain dysfunction.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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