[Treatment of difficult opening of the mouth by redressment].

Abstract

In 228 patients treated at the Second Stomatological Clinic on account of difficult opening of the mouth after failure of rehabilitation treatment surgical treatment--redressment had to be used. In two patients it was necessary to amputate the muscular processus of the mandible and to eliminate adhesion. The authors describe the method of one-stage redressment which they perform under general anaesthesia and myorelaxation during short-term hospitalization of the patient. They evaluate this method in indicated cases as very satisfactory as it has an immediate and permanent therapeutic effects.