This study was performed at the Department of Prosthodontics, School of Dentistry, University of Istanbul, Turkey. Patients with orofacial pain who reported to the school's primary TMD referral centre ...

Imaging aided in the diagnosis of a 26-year-old man's very unusual infratemporal fossa abscess that developed in the lateral pterygoid, a masticatory muscle, following wisdom tooth extraction. The ...

Many scientific and medical terms describe ordinary actions that people perform every day without giving them much thought. Mastication is one such word. Although it may sound highly technical, it ...

The muscles in your body keep you going, and though their strength can be measured in different ways, one of the strongest ...