The Relationship of Tinnitus to Craniocervical Mandibular Disorders

ABSTRACT

Patients with craniocervical mandibular (TMD) disorders can present with tinnitus as a primary or secondary complaint. The embryology and functional anatomy of the middle ear, temporomandibular joint, muscles of mastication and associated tendons, ligaments, blood vessels, nerves and lymphatics was found to be helpful in establishing etiologic concepts which relate tinnitus to these temporomandibular disorders. In addition to etiologic concepts, treatment modalities are described. The authors relate their experiences as well as those of others with different patient populations.

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Harold Gelb

Dr. Harold Gelb received his B.S. degree from New York University in 1944 and his D.M.D. degree from Tufts University College of Dental Medicine in 1947. Currently Dr. Gelb is an Adjunct Clinical Professor in the Department of General Dentistry at Tufts University College of Dental Medicine. He is founder of the Craniomandibular Pain Center at Tufts University College of Dental Medicine. Dr. Gelb is a Diplomate of the American Board of Orofacial Pain.

Michael L. Gelb

Dr. Michael L. Gelb received his D.D.S. degree from Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery in 1982 and his M.S. degree from SUNY at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine in 1984. Currently Dr. Gelb is Director of the TMJ and Orofacial Pain Program at the NYU College of Dentistry and is also Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Oral Medicine and Pathology at the NYU College of Dentistry, Division of Basic Science. He was also awarded Diplomate of the American Board of Orofacial Pain in 1995

Melinda L. Wagner

Dr. Melinda L. Wagner received her B.A. degree from Rutgers College in 1979 and her D.M.D. degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University, School of Dental Medicine in 1983. In 1986, Dr. Wagner completed a two-year mini-residency program at UMDNJ in Craniomandibular Disorders. She is a member of the American Dental Society, the New Jersey Dental Society, the Monmouth-Ocean County Dental Society (where she served as their first woman president in 1993), the Academy of General Dentistry, and the UMDNJ-TMD Alumi Association.