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Oral Motor Treatment of TMD

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Contemporary Management of Temporomandibular Disorders

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Patients with temporomandibular disorder (TMD) exhibit impairment of orofacial muscles, mastication, and swallowing. The objective of oral motor treatment is to rehabilitate the stomatognathic (or orofacial) functions and to resolve the signs and symptoms of TMD. The basis of this treatment, the way it is performed, and the possibility of combining it with other modalities and future perspectives are discussed in this chapter.

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  1. Department of Ophthalmology, Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, School of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo (USP), Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil

    Cláudia Maria de Felício

  2. Craniofacial Research Support Center, University of São Paulo (USP), Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil

    Cláudia Maria de Felício

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  1. Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, San Francisco VA Health Care System, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

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  2. Private Practice, Dental Implant and Oral Surgery of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

    S. Thaddeus Connelly  & Rebeka G. Silva  & 

  3. Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, Functional Anatomy Research Center (FARC), Universita degli Studi di Milano Functional Anatomy Research Center, Milano, Italy

    Gianluca Martino Tartaglia

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de Felício, C.M. (2019). Oral Motor Treatment of TMD. In: Connelly, S.T., Tartaglia, G.M., Silva, R.G. (eds) Contemporary Management of Temporomandibular Disorders. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99912-8_6

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