Developing a New Appliance to Dissipate Mechanical Load on Teeth and Improve Limitation of Vertical Mouth Opening

Satomi, Takashi; Tanaka, Toshiaki; Kobayashi, Takehito; Iino, Mituyoshi

doi:10.5037/jomr.2012.4304

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Developing a New Appliance to Dissipate Mechanical Load on Teeth and Improve Limitation of Vertical Mouth Opening

Takashi Satomi^1a, Toshiaki Tanaka^1,2a, Takehito Kobayashi³, Mituyoshi Iino³

¹Department of Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Yamagata University Hospital, Yamagata, Japan.

²Department of Anatomy and Cell biology, School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata University, Yamagata, Japan.

³Department of Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata University, Yamagata, Japan.

^aThe first two authors contributed equally to this work.

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Toshiaki Tanaka

Department of Anatomy and Cell biology

School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata University

2-2-2 Iidanishi, Yamagata 990-9585

Japan

Phone: +81 23 6285209

Fax: +81 23 6285210

E-mail: ttanaka@med.id.yamagata-u.ac.jp

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Copyright © Satomi T, Tanaka T, Kobayashi T, Iino M. Published in the JOURNAL OF ORAL & MAXILLOFACIAL RESEARCH (http://www.ejomr.org), 1 October 2013.

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ABSTRACT

Objectives: The principle of leverage to superpose the convex surfaces of two shells was applied to develop a device for treating limitation of mouth opening and called it the "shell-shaped mouth opener" and analyzed pressure on the teeth with the TheraBite^® appliance and the shell-shaped mouth opening appliance.

Material and Methods: To compare the TheraBite^® appliance and the shell-shaped mouth opening appliance, pressure on the teeth in the dentition model with both devices was analyzed using the Inastomer^® flexible conductive sensor.

Results: The load was better dispersed to each tooth in the shell-shaped mouth opening appliance in the all quadrants compared to the TheraBite^® appliance.

Conclusions: The present study revealed that the shell-shaped mouth opening appliance which was originally invented in our lab, dissipated the mechanical load on teeth more evenly than the TheraBite^® appliance.

J Oral Maxillofac Res 2013 (Jul-Sep);4(3):e4

doi:10.5037/jomr.2013.4304

Accepted for publication: 19 September 2013

Keywords: mouth rehabilitation; dental stress analysis.

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Satomi T, Tanaka T, Kobayashi T, Iino M.

Developing a New Appliance to Dissipate Mechanical Load on Teeth and Improve Limitation of Vertical Mouth Opening.

J Oral Maxillofac Res 2013;4(3):e4

URL: http://www.ejomr.org/JOMR/archives/2013/3/e4/v4n3e4ht.htm

doi: 10.5037/jomr.2013.4304

Received: 10 July 2013 | Accepted: 19 September 2013 | Published: 1 October 2013


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