AN EVALUATION OF CONDYLE POSITION IN CENTRIC RELATION OBTAINED BY MANIPULATION OF THE MANDIBLE WITH AND WITHOUT LEAF GAUGE DEPROGRAMMING

Authors
BRAUN S MARCOTTE MR FREUDENTHALER JW HONIGLE K
Citation
S. Braun et al., AN EVALUATION OF CONDYLE POSITION IN CENTRIC RELATION OBTAINED BY MANIPULATION OF THE MANDIBLE WITH AND WITHOUT LEAF GAUGE DEPROGRAMMING, American journal of orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics, 111(1), 1997, pp. 34-37
Citations number
26
Categorie Soggetti
Dentistry,Oral Surgery & Medicine
Journal title
American journal of orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics → ACNP
ISSN journal
08895406
Volume
111
Issue
1
Year of publication
1997
Pages
34 - 37
Database
ISI
SICI code
0889-5406(1997)111:1<34:AEOCPI>2.0.ZU;2-1
Abstract
Centric relation records of 19 dental students were obtained with leaf gauges and by mandibular manipulation; The condyle/fossa relationship s were subsequently evaluated with enhanced sagittal cephalometry. Bot h clinical methods of obtaining centric relation revealed considerable variation of the condyle location within the glenoid fossa, Only 10% of the patients showed a condyle position ''upward and forward'' in th e fossa with the leaf gauge method. In the mandibular manipulation tec hnique of obtaining centric relation, 10% of the patients showed an '' upward and rearward'' position of the condyle.