OBJECTIVE: To report the performance of Physiotherapy in patients with temporomandibular dysfunction treated in an extension project at the school clinic in Fortaleza. METHODS: This is a retrospective, documental study with a quantitative approach. Data were collected from the medical records of the Clinical School of Physiotherapy of Christus University Center in the city of Fortaleza, from March to December 2...
Background: Investments in patents are more and more widespread at the capitalism, because all the system working is related to the innovation and the technological and scientific advance, in which the industries and universities have a fundamental rule. When those researches generate a product, this can be patented, being deposited initially on an intellectual property bank and thus the inventor and his group ...
One of the most interesting and not yet understood anatomical structures of the oral cavity is the frenum or frenulum (1,2). The frenum, a mucous connective tissue inserted on hard- or soft-parts of the oral cavity, is histologically composed of fibrodense tissue and occasionally of striated muscle fibers (1,2). Three types are commonly identified in the oral cavity: superior labial frenum, inferior labial fren...