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Palpation of the TMJ Place the tips of your index fingers in each external acoustic meatus and have the patient open and close his mouth. Clicking or crepitation.

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1 Palpation of the TMJ Place the tips of your index fingers in each external acoustic meatus and have the patient open and close his mouth. Clicking or crepitation is felt with TMJ arthritis; the joint will be tender if rheumatoid arthritis is the cause. Source: The Head and Neck, DeGowin’s Diagnostic Examination, 10e Citation: LeBlond RF, Brown DD, Suneja M, Szot JF. DeGowin’s Diagnostic Examination, 10e; 2015 Available at: Accessed: December 29, 2017 Copyright © 2017 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved


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