A clinical study and an investigation on the relation of torus palatinus and torus mandibularis with tmd

Torus palatinus and torus mandibularis being non-pathological and inconspicuous most of the time serves minimal attention from patients and clinician. On controversy temporo mandibular diseases (TMD) having a variety of eitiopathology and various grades of manifestations has always been an interesting area for clinicians. Though the prevalence of tori and their correlation with sex and age had studied widely, the reduced number of samples always been a limitation. This study was under taken to find whether a correlation exists between these two entities. We conducted a wide clinical examination and study model analysis on 2478 sample of which 0.44% were presented with torus mandibularis and none with torus palatinus. Almost same frequency of occurrence was observed between males and females. For males, prevalence of tori was maximum at second decade and for females on third decade. Whereas least tori were seen in third decade for males and first decade for females. On comparison of TMD with Torus mandibularis it was found that there was no such correlation since only one case was presented with both conditions. Most of tori were found to be situated on anterior one third region and of mild form so that most of the patients were unaware about the existence.