[Critical review of the various treatments of temporomandibular joint pain-dysfunction syndrome. What will be the psychosomatic approach to these patients?].

A multitude of theoretical, etiologic and therapeutic approaches to temporomandibular joint (TMJ) dysfunction have been developed. In spite of all the efforts for combined therapy that have proliferated over the last years, the therapeutic options proposed for these patients are extraordinarily diversified and vary with the different schools. The different opinions are rarely in agreement.

[Dentigerous cysts: apropos of 40 cases].

The study of 40 cases of voluminous odontogenic cysts has made evident the general characteristics of these current odontogenic tumors always tied-in with a tooth without any pathognomonic sign. The diagnosis is made by reasoning, combining clinical information, age, localisation, development, x-ray's information and anatomo-pathological parameters. The treatment is surgical enucleation of the cyst and it's generally easy.

[Glossodynia].

Glossodynias are a build up of painful lingual syndromes with neither a detectable visible lesion, nor of a known organic origin. An obvious discordance between the subjective feelings and the weakness, even absence of an objective lesion support able to explain them, can be observed. Being often considered by physicians to be of a psychological origin, they are always the object of never-ending research for a detectable lesion which would explain their complications.

[Compensatory alveolar inclinations in sagittal dysharmonies of the skeletal base].

544 cases analysis have shown that the sagittal maxillo-mandibular discrepancies happens to be a very frequent problem in orthodontics. They are often compensated by dento-alveolar inclinations, when no muscular disorder, functional or constitutional, exists. The basal discrepancies modify the direction of dental inclinations.

[Aerodontalgia. Report of a case].

Dental pains provoked by an altitude beyond 5.000 ft can occur with any kind of tooth, healthy or restored. It is considered as a consequence of a brutal pressure change.