Temporomandibular disorder treatment in a patient wearing removable prostheses: A case report.

AIM: The purpose of this intervention was to treat the patient, a 51-year-old woman, who was wearing a maxillary denture and a mandibular bilateral distal-extension partial denture (both unfit) and was suffering from temporomandibular disorder (TMD).

METHODOLOGY: The treatment suggested was to construct a superior repositioning splint (SRS), and after remission of the symptomatology, fabricate new dentures.

RESULTS

The occlusal splint was effective and the symptomatology ceased after about five months of treatment. The new dental prostheses were made and followed up for 10 years with no return of the pain.

CONCLUSIONS

SRS and subsequent construction of new dentures after remission of the symptomatology was an effective treatment for TMD in the case described.