[Dental and gnathological aspects of facial neuralgia (author's transl)].

Disturbances of dental occlusion may lead to hyperactivity of the regional musculature, accompanied by a displacement of the lower jaw. The muscle and joint pains which then occur are the principal causes of the complex picture of facial neuralgia from the gnathological point of view, but the emotional factor must not be overlooked. The dental treatment of the pain syndrome demands extremely high expenditure in time and technical equipment. It usually consists of repositioning the displaced mandible with subsequent stabilization by dental technical measures. It is, moreover, important to keep parafunctional activity of the masseter muscles as low as possible or to suppress it altogether by purposeful arrangement of the occlusal surface complex.