Relación entre anomalías en el complejo cráneo-cérvico-mandibular, disfunción temporomandibular y oclusión

Abstract

Cráneo cervico mandibular complex has different degrees of mobility because it is placed above the upper and lower cervical spine which has independent movements one from another. This complex should work in harmony or “orthostatic stability” in order to avoid stressful movements which may hurt ligaments, muscles, and capsule from temporomandibular joint. There is the hypothesis that a wrong position of the mentioned complex can produce changes in dental occlusion, and also temporomandibular disorders, because of simultaneous activation of masticatory muscles, the consequence is changes in mandible, and hyoid bone. Recent evidence refuses that hypothesis because the human body has propioceptors to maintain an orthostatic stability from the complex's asymmetries, and avoid further damage.