Effects of spring-loaded posterior bite-block appliance on masticatory muscles

American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 179-183

  Akkaya, Sevil ^a   Haydar, Seda ^b   Bilir, Erhan ^c  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c GAZI UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CEPHALOMETRY; CHILD; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FACE; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; MALOCCLUSION; MASSETER MUSCLE; MASTICATION; MAXILLOFACIAL DEVELOPMENT; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; ORTHODONTIC DEVICE; ORTHODONTICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SWALLOWING; TEMPORALIS MUSCLE; TOOTH OCCLUSION;

CEPHALOMETRY; CHILD; DEGLUTITION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MALOCCLUSION; MASSETER MUSCLE; MASTICATION; MAXILLOFACIAL DEVELOPMENT; ORTHODONTIC APPLIANCES, FUNCTIONAL; ORTHODONTICS, CORRECTIVE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TEMPORAL MUSCLE; VERTICAL DIMENSION;

EID: 0034242447     PISSN: 08895406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mod.2000.104809     Document Type: Article

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