Occlusal adjustment: Quo vadis?

Cranio - Journal of Craniomandibular and Sleep Practice

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-4

  Ash, Major M ^a   Ward, Marcus L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHRALGIA; BRUXISM; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; JAW MOVEMENT; MASTICATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MYALGIA; NEUROBIOLOGY; ORTHODONTICS; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT DISORDER; TOOTH OCCLUSION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; MALOCCLUSION; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

DENTAL OCCLUSION; DENTAL OCCLUSION, CENTRIC; DENTAL OCCLUSION, TRAUMATIC; HUMANS; MALOCCLUSION; NEUROBIOLOGY; OCCLUSAL ADJUSTMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT DISORDERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037267759     PISSN: 08869634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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