UNASSIGNED: The present randomised controlled study compared the 3-year outcome of local anaesthetics with anaesthetics and lavage in @entity1 suffering from @entity158 joint ( @entity1348 ) locking. The study included 45 @entity1 referred for treatment of @entity2956 ( @entity2956 ) to the Department of Orofacial @entity158 and Jaw Function, Faculty of Odontology, Malm   University, Malm  , Sweden. All @entity1 received a history questionnaire and clinical examination according to the Research Diagnostic Criteria for @entity2956 , panoramic radiographs and magnetic resonance imaging at baseline. Twenty-five @entity1 were randomised to anaesthetics alone and 20 @entity1 to anaesthetics and lavage. Three years after treatment, we sent the 37 @entity1 who were available for follow-up a questionnaire that evaluated @entity158 intensity, physical and emotional functioning, and global improvement. Thirty-four @entity1 responded. The primary outcome was defined as >=   30% @entity158 relief. In an intention-to-treat analysis, 28 of 45 @entity1 (62%) reported >=   30% @entity158 relief at the follow-up. At 3  years, improvement in @entity158 relief, physical functioning, emotional functioning and global improvement differed non-significantly between local anaesthetics and anaesthetics and lavage. Compared with baseline, significant improvements (P  <  0  05) in @entity158 intensity, physical functioning, emotional functioning and global changes had occurred in both groups after 3  years. Because outcome measurements in the local anaesthetics and lavage and the local anaesthetics groups differed non-significantly 3  years after treatment of painful @entity1348 disc displacement without reduction, use of lavage (50  mL saline) has an equivalent effect as local anaesthetics.

Questionable effect of lavage for treatment of XXXX at disc displacement without reduction: a 3-year randomised controlled follow-up.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['patients'] @entity1348 :: ('MESH:D013706', 'Disease') :: ['TMJ'] @entity2956 :: ('MESH:D013705', 'Disease') :: ['TMD', 'temporomandibular disorders'] @entity158 :: ('MESH:D010146', 'Disease') :: ['Pain', 'painful temporomandibular', 'pain']
@entity158 :: (MESH:D010146,Disease) :: ['painful jaw movements']
