Original scientific paper
[Assessment of the load exerted on particular teeth in patients with pathologic abrasion]
Dragutin Komar
; Zavod za fiksnu protetiku, Stomatološkog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Zvonimir Kosovel
; Zavod za fiksnu protetiku, Stomatološkog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Abstract
Despite numerous studies of the subject, some aspects of pathologic
abrasion appear to require more clarification. Wearing away of the hard dental tissues exceeding physiological limits damages the teeth as an organ, and its supporting structures as well, i. e. he entire stomatognathic system. Such a pathologic lesion to the teeth would unavoidably reflect upon the masticatory force values attained, while the functional load exerted on an abraded tooth would differ from that acting upon the control group teeth. Therefore, he gnathodynamometric studies were undertaken in a representative sample of subjects with clinical picture of pathologic obrasion and a
control group of abrasion-free subjects. According to the results, the masticatory force acting upon individual abraded teeth of the frontal, right and left segments was by 10.97% lower, 10.88% higher and 13.96% higher compared to the load exerted on the respective non-abraded teeth, respectively.
Keywords
Occlusal load; pathologic abrasion gnathodynamometric studies
Hrčak ID:
106810
URI
Publication date:
15.12.1986.
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