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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Stilus Optimus
2013-10-01
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| Series: | eJournal of Oral Maxillofacial Research |
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| Online Access: | http://www.ejomr.org/JOMR/archives/2013/3/e4/v4n3e4ht.htm |