Evidence of psychic genesis of hypertonia of mastication muscles (part I)
The nature of diseases of mastication muscles and the temporo-mandibular joint, their psychosomatic genesis are discussed. The main purpose of the study is determined, the description of the clinical contingent given. Considering the statistics of the results obtained by us, the probable causes and predisposing conditions for occurrence of various forms of disease of the temporomandibular joint complicated with muscular hypertonia are shown.