New Intraoral Appliance for Trismus in Oral Submucous Fibrosis- Case report

Dr Nallan C. S. K. Chaitanya at the Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Panineeya Institute of Dental Sciences, Hyderabad, India, and colleagues have reported a case of use of New Intraoral Appliance for Trismus in Oral Submucous Fibrosis. The case has been published in the Journal of  Case Reports in dentistry.

Trismus refers to the condition where an individual is unable to open the mouth, occurs due to various causes ranging from simple, nonprogressive to potentially life-threatening. It is the most common sequelae of various pathological processes leading to a compromised nutritional state in addition to physical and psychological disabilities. Therapeutic interventions are available to relieve trismus, which ranges from oral usage of pharmacological agents to intralesional steroid therapy. Intraoral appliance therapy can be employed as an alternative or adjuvant treatment for radiotherapy-induced fibrosis and autoimmune disorders such as scleroderma, psychogenic trismus, and oral submucous fibrosis, decreasing the adverse effects associated with other pharmacological interventions. A novel intraoral appliance—"Nallan C-H"—has been developed and tried for trismus producing better results.