Temporomandibular Joint Condyle-Disc Morphometric Sexual Dimorphisms Independent of Skull Scaling.

Intrinsic gender-specific differences independent of scaling with donor skull size were identified in temporomandibular morphometry. Understanding intrinsic gender-specific morphometric differences is critical to determining the temporomandibular biomechanics given the effect of anatomy on joint contact mechanics and stress-strain distributions and requires further study as one potential factor for the increased predisposition of women to temporomandibular disc derangement.