Temporomandibular joint replacement devices - dark past to challenging future

Abstract

This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, for any purpose, even commercially, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. Abstract Alfred Stille said, "Medicine, like all knowledge has a past as well as a present and a future…in that past is the soil out of which improvement must grow." This original paper will review how past successes and failures have led to the development of improved temporomandibular joint replacement devices. Future considerations and challenges will be presented.