As a firefighter I do everything from fight grass fires, house fires, rubbish fires, car fires, anything that can catch on fire weâd be called for it. We go to medical calls, any time ambulances are called out we go to it. We do everything from heart attacks to small injuries to car wrecks.
These patients are very low in their self esteem. Management of patients with trismus: Treatment should ideally be directed towards managing the cause of trismus 8. If trismus is. caused due to muscle fibrosis / formation of immature scar tissue formation physical therapy. and use of trismus appliance could be of use.
Dental trismus is characterized by a difficulty in opening the jaw. It is a temporary condition with a duration usually not longer than two weeks. Dental trismus results from some sort of insult to the muscles of mastication, such as opening the jaw for a period of time or having a needle pass through a muscle.