Developing a New Appliance to Dissipate Mechanical Load on Teeth and Improve Limitation of Vertical Mouth Opening

Developing a New Appliance to Dissipate Mechanical Load on Teeth and Improve Limitation of Vertical Mouth Opening

Objectives: The principle of leverage to superpose the convex surfaces of two shells was applied to develop a device for treating limitation of mouth opening and called it the “shell-shaped mouth opener” and analyzed pressure on the teeth with the TheraBite® appliance and the shell-shaped mouth ope...

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Main Authors: Takashi Satomi, Toshiaki Tanaka, Takehito Kobayashi, Mituyoshi Iino
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Faculty of Odontology 2013-10-01
Series:eJournal of Oral Maxillofacial Research
Subjects:
mouth rehabilitation
dental stress analysis.
Online Access:http://www.ejomr.org/JOMR/archives/2013/3/e4/v4n3e4ht.htm
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