[Therapy and treatment results in functional disorders of the masticatory apparatus]

Thirty-three patients with the tentative diagnosis of a myofacial pain syndrome were treated symptomatically and causally after standardized diagnostic exmaination. Eleven months after the termination of therapy, twelve patients were without symptoms, seventeen showed improvements and the clinical picture of four patients had not changed at all. When supporting the therapeutic success by prosthetic measures the choice of the articulator system (Dentatus, Condylator) was irrelevant.