Temporomandibular arthrosis, which is accompanied by pain in the jaw joint and surrounding tissue, as well as clicking and disorder of jaw opening or movement, is common in dentistry field. However current treatment often does not result in improvement. We carried out acupuncture treatment for temporomandibular arthrosis without organic disorders including psychogenic ones. 12 patients (one male and 11jfemales) referred from the department of dentistry and oral surgery of our hospital underwent acupuncture treatment once or twice a week. In each treatment, electro-acupuncture was performed for fifteen minutes through chinese needles applied to Fuchi, Eifu, Anmin, Kensei, Taiyo, Gekan, Kyosha, Ten-yo, Kensei and Gokoku. Remarkable results were obtaied in 4 of these cases, effective in 2 cases, rather-effective in 3, and non-effectiveI in 3 cases, a 75% effectivectiveness ratio.

As the treatment for peripheral facial paralysis, stellate ganglion block (SGB), steroid administration, a sugical operation, vitamine administration and acupuncture are acknowledged. The authors carried out a comparative study of two methods (acupuncture alone vs. the combination of acupuncture and SGB) on 41 cases with Bell's paralysis and 10 cases with Hant's syndrome. Acupuncture treatment, 15 minutes electrical stimulation, was done twice a week using Chinese needles. For the SGB group, SGB was done to the diseased side before each treatment using 5-10ml of 1% xylocaine. The results were rated on the basis of May's score. Marked effectiveness was seen rather more frequent among the fresh cases of the SGB group, but no significant differences were there. The fresh cases showed no significant differences between the two groups. The results confirmed the conviction that acupuncture is one of the effective methods for peripheral facial paralysis.