Arthritis mandibular - inflammatory a mandibular joint.

Etiology. A trauma, including occlusal; an infection the general - a gonorrhea, a scarlatina and local - an osteomyelitis of a jaw, a parotitis, an otitis, a mastoiditis.

Pathogenesis. A becoming infected hematogenically-meta-static or contact, an inflammation of a capsule of a joint, then a destruction of a cartilage and a meniscus. „

Signs, current. In easy cases - a pain amplifying at movements of a jaw, a small tumescence at a tragus of an auricle; the palpation is morbid. At a purulent inflammation - the sharp pain giving to an ear, a temple, because of a pain it is impossible to open a mouth. The body temperature raises, the cold fit, sometimes an intoxication are marked. At chronic current a rigidity, clicks in a joint at movements of the jaw, unpleasant sensations. Periodically there are exacerbations.

The forecast. Easy acute forms pass completely, the expressed forms cause a deforming arthritis. At a denudation of osteal surfaces of a joint - an ankylosis.

Prophylaxis is reduced to early elimination of an articulation trauma.