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What is Measure, Predict, and Prevent

Handbook of Research on Computerized Occlusal Analysis Technology Applications in Dental Medicine
Adult force distribution patterns measure resistance to the mandible’s favored pathway within the envelope of function. Elevated and prolonged force intensity often can predict the location of where pathology to the system and to the anatomy, will likely evolve. The concept of prevention is to identify and correct pathologic force before destruction occurs.
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Digital Occlusal Force Distribution Patterns (DOFDPs): Theory and Clinical Consequences
Robert C. Supple, DMD (Private Practice, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-6587-3.ch019
Abstract
This chapter describes the many clinical applications of Digital Occlusal Force Distribution Patterns (DOFDPs) recorded with the T-Scan Computerized Occlusal Analysis system. Movements made by the Center of Force trajectory as force travels around the dental arches during the occlusion and disocclusion creates these patterns. The repetitive occlusal contact data points locate the force distribution received when teeth occlude against each other. These force distribution patterns correlate to intraoral compromised dental anatomy found in radiographs, photographs, and during the clinical examination of teeth and their supporting tissues. Moreover, they directly influence the envelope of motion, the envelope of function, and head and neck posture. This chapter illustrates with clinical examples the correlation between Stomatognathic System structural damage and repeating patterns of abnormal occlusal force distribution. The T-Scan technology isolates these damaging regions of excess microtraumatic occlusal force, absent of clinician subjectivity, thereby helping clinicians make an accurate, organized, and documented occlusal diagnosis.
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