Table 3.

Systemic review of patients diagnosed with TMJ synovial chondromatosis and treated with open arthrotomy or arthroscopy

	References	Year of publication	Journal	Number of cases	Age (mean)	Gender (F/M)	Joint (R/L)	Surgery
1	[16]	2007	Dentomaxillofac Radiol	1	32	F	R	Open plus arthroscopy (arthroscopy first)
2	[5]	2008	J Oral Maxillofac Surg	3	37–56 (46)	2/1	2 R, 1L	Arthroscopy
3	[17]	2008	Dentomaxillofac Radiol	1	35	F	R	Arthroscopy
4	[18]	2008	Br J Oral Maxillofac Surg	1	28	F	R	Open plus arthroscopy (arthroscopy first)
5	[19]	2010	Int J Oral Maxillofac Surg	1	74	F	L	Open plus arthroscopy
6	[20]	2010	Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol Endod	1	44	F	R	Arthroscopy
7	[21]	2011	J Craniomaxillofac Surg	1	50	M	L	Arthroscopy
8	[15]	2012	J Oral Maxillofac Surg	33	21–62 (43)	26/7	18 R, 15 L	32 arthroscopy, 1 + open
9	[22]	2013	Dentomaxillofac Radiol	1	34	F	R	Open plus arthroscopy (arthroscopy first)
10	[23]	2017	Int J Oral Maxillofac Surg	36	29–65 (48.1)	25/11	14 R, 22 L	Open plus arthroscopy