TMJ Surgery – Part 2: TMJ Pathologies Requiring Total Joint Replacement

Learning Objectives – Identify and treat TMJ pathologies requiring total joint prostheses

- Clinical, radiographic, and MRI diagnostics for patients requiring total joint prostheses
- Virtual Surgical Planning (VSP) for concomitant TMJ and orthognathic surgery
- Surgical technique for placement of patient-fitted total joint prostheses
- Importance of fat grafts placed around articulation area of total joint prostheses
- Reactive arthritis
- Trauma
- Tumors
- Ankylosis
- Craniofacial deformities (hemifacial microsomia, Treacher-Collins syndrome, etc.)
- Connective tissue/autoimmune diseases (JIA, RA, psoriatic arthritis, etc.)