Review the clinical studies on the use of hyaluronic acid injections to treat TMJ disorders

Hyaluronic acid in the treatment of TMJ disorders: a systematic review of the literature.

Article specifications

This systemic review was published in 2010 in Journal of Cranio. (IF 2010:0.90) by Italian dentists. The present paper aims to summarize and review systematically the clinical studies on the use of hyaluronic acid injections to treat TMJ disorders performed over the last decade. On November 9, 2009, a systematic search in the National Library of Medicine's PubMed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed) database was performed by means of a combined MeSH and word terms to identify all peer-reviewed papers published in the English literature dealing with the hyaluronic acid infiltration in patients affected by TMJ disorders.

 

Results

The available literature seems to be inconclusive as to the effectiveness of HA injections with respect to other therapeutic modalities in treating TMJ disorders. Studies with a better methodological design are needed to gain better insight into this issue and to draw clinically useful information on the most suitable protocols for each different TMJ disorder.