The efficacy of acupuncture and decompression splints in the treatment of temporomandibular joint pain-dysfunction syndrome.

Objectives: The goal of the present study was to evaluate the results of applying acupuncture or occlusal decompression splints in the treatment of patients diagnosed with the temporomandibular joint pain-dysfunction syndrome.

Design Of The Study: We conducted a randomized clinical trial including 20 patients to whom the mentioned treatments were applied. Results were evaluated through an analogue pain scale, measurements of mouth opening and jaw lateral deviation in millimetres, and assessment of sensitivity to pressure on different points: preauricular, masseter muscle, temporal muscle and trapezius.

Multiple oral fibropapillomatosis as an initial manifestation of Cowden Syndrome. Case report.

Cowden syndrome is a rare hereditary disease included within hamartoma-type gastrointestinal polyposis. It is characterised by associated mucocutaneous anomalies and by the extraordinary tendency to develop malignant neoplasia, mainly in the breast and thyroid. Early diagnosis of the syndrome and adequate tumoral screening in patients with mucocutaneous papillomatosis make it possible to make an earlier diagnosis of associated pathologies which have great morbidity when detected late.