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Westling L, Holm S, Wallentin I. Temporomandibular joint dysfunction. Connective tissue variations in skin biopsy and mitral valve function. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol. 1992;74(6):709-18doi: 10.1016/0030-4220(92)90395-7.
Westling, L., Holm, S., & Wallentin, I. (1992). Temporomandibular joint dysfunction. Connective tissue variations in skin biopsy and mitral valve function. Oral surgery, oral medicine, and oral pathology, 74(6), 709-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/0030-4220(92)90395-7
Westling, L, et al. "Temporomandibular joint dysfunction. Connective tissue variations in skin biopsy and mitral valve function." Oral surgery, oral medicine, and oral pathology vol. 74,6 (1992): 709-18. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/0030-4220(92)90395-7
Westling L, Holm S, Wallentin I. Temporomandibular joint dysfunction. Connective tissue variations in skin biopsy and mitral valve function. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol. 1992 Dec;74(6):709-18. doi: 10.1016/0030-4220(92)90395-7. PMID: 1488224.
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Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol. 1992 Dec;74(6):709-18. doi: 10.1016/0030-4220(92)90395-7.

Temporomandibular joint dysfunction. Connective tissue variations in skin biopsy and mitral valve function.

Oral surgery, oral medicine, and oral pathology

L Westling, S Holm, I Wallentin

Affiliations

  1. Department of Stomatognathic Physiology, Faculty of Odontology, University of Göteborg, Sweden.

PMID: 1488224 DOI: 10.1016/0030-4220(92)90395-7

Abstract

Ten women with temporomandibular joint dysfunction and general joint hypermobility (score, 4 to 8) and 10 symptom-free female volunteers without systemic laxity (score, 0 to 2) were selected for the study. A biopsy of connective tissue from arm skin found that the total collagen concentrations were lower and the proteoglycan values were higher in the hypermobile TMJ patients than in the control subjects. The mitral region of the heart was inspected by echocardiography. Eight patients and four controls had slightly abnormal echocardiographic findings. Two patients fulfilled the criteria for mitral valve prolapse. The patients had significantly more musculoskeletal complaints than did the controls. The study suggests an association between joint hypermobility, abnormal skin connective tissue composition, mitral valve malfunction, and musculoskeletal disorders in young women with TMJ dysfunction, especially internal derangement.

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