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These findings include thickening of an attachment of the lateral pterygoid muscle, rupture of retrodiskal layers, and joint effusion and can serve as indirect early signs of TMJ dysfunction. It is important for the radiologist to detect early MR imaging signs of dysfunction, thereby avoiding the evolution of this condition to its final stage, an advanced and irreversible phase that is characterized by osteoarthritic changes such as condylar flattening or osteophytes

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Crestal bone changes around implants with reduced abutment diameter placed non-submerged and at subcrestal positions: a 1-year radiographic evaluation
Journal of Periodontology, 12/03/09

Clinical manifestations of Ellis-van Creveld syndrome
Journal of Indian Society of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry , 11/20/09

Editor's Summary and Q&A: Cone-beam computed tomography evaluation of orthodontic miniplate anchoring screws in the posterior maxilla
American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, 11/12/09