cooperation with all the surgically treated patients.
The Department of Growth and Development (Chair: Dr. L. Will) of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, the Department of Orthopedic Surgery (Chair: Dr. T. Einhorn) and the Laboratory of Musculoskeletal Research (Director: Dr. L.C. Gerstenfeld) of the Boston University School of Medicine deserve our gratitude for their understanding support.
Graphic artist Adrian Cornford has demonstrated his great skill in translating our sometimes vague sketches into instructive illustrations. For this we are grateful.
Our thanks are due also to Prof. Sandra Winter-Buerke who, in posing as our patient for the photographs demonstrating the manual functional analysis procedures, submitted to a veritable “lightning storm” of strobe flashes. She endured the tedious photographic sessions with amazing patience.
Our thanks go also to the dentists Katja Kraft, Nicole Schaal, and Sandra Dersch for their assistance with the photographic work in the chapters “Instrumented Analysis of jaw Movements” and “Mounting of Casts and Occlusal Analysis.”
Furthermore, we would like to thank Dr. K. Wiemer and Mr. A. Rathjen for their support in organizing the illustrations and the intercontinental transmission of data.
We thank the dental technicians Mrs. N. Kirbudak, Mr. U. Schmidt, and Mr. G. Böckler for the numerous laboratory preparations.
We are grateful to the firms Elscint (General Electric), Girrbach, KaVo, and SAM for their support in the form of materials used in the preparation of this book.
We thank our students and seminar participants for their critical comments and stimulating discussions. These exchanges were a significant help in the didactic construction of this work.
We are also very grateful to Dr. Richard Jacobi for his excellent translation.
In closing, we wish in particular to express our heartfelt thanks to Dr. Christian Urbanowicz, Karl-Heinz Fleischmann, Markus Pohlmann, Clifford Bergman, M.D., and Gert Krüger as well as to all the other staff at Georg Thieme Verlag who worked with us, the Reproduction Department, the printer’s, and book binder’s for their engagement and professionalism in the design and preparation of this volume.
Table of Contents
The Masticatory System as a Biological System
Progressive/Regressive Adaptation and Compensation/Decompensation
Functional Diagnostic Examination Procedures...
...and their Therapeutic Consequences
The Role of Dentistry in Craniofacial Pain
Findings in the Teeth and Mucous Membrane
Overview of Dental Examination Techniques
Anatomy of the Masticatory System
Embryology of the Temporomandibular Joint and the Muscles of Mastication
Development of the Upper and Lower Joint Spaces
Glenoid Fossa and Articular Protuberance
Positional Relationships of the Bony Structures
Ligaments of the Masticatory System
Arterial Supply and Sensory Innervation of the Temporomandibular Joint
Sympathetic Innervation of the Temporomandibular joint
Macroscopical-Anatomical and Histological Studies of the Masticatory Muscle Insertions
