This paper gives an overview of scientific challenges that may occur while performing modelling meat (as a product) and simulating mastication by using engineering tools. To evaluate these challenges, Failure Mode Effect Analysis method has been employed to assess six tools often used in analyzing different perspectives food oral processing. As result, risk priority number comprising severity t...

Trismus is a pathological condition of the muscles of mastication which commonly affects patients who have undergone dental procedures, oral surgery, and radiation therapy for head and neck cancer. The purpose of this case report is to describe the use of dynamic splinting, a noninvasive modality to reduce trismus which occurred in a patient following multiple dental procedures. A 26 year old m...

The goal of this study was to obtain basic data for the clinical evaluation of full dentures, and to investigate quantitatively and three dimensionaly for every phase of mandibular movement, the mobility at the anterior teeth of maxillary full dentures during function. The subjects were seven people having maxillary and mandibular full dentures with good retention and stability. Measurements we...

Difference in the activity of masticatory muscles between subjects with normal teeth alignment and occlusion and patients with disorders at the oral region was investigated using a differential Lissajous EMG method. Surface EMGs were recorded from the right and left temporal and masseter muscles during peanut and chewing gum mastications. The difference of the integrated EMGs between both sides...

The digastric muscle is one of the suprahyoid muscles and consists of the anterior and posterior bellies. Because muscle fiber alignments in these two bellies are different, the functional roles are said to be different. Since the digastric muscle relates to mastication, its functions may change markedly before and after weaning, but many details remain unknown. The aim of this study was to cla...