Determination of tangential and normal components of oral forces

Oral forces applied to human teeth during biting and mastication are normally described in the literature only in terms of their axial components. The purpose of this study was to fully determine the spatial characteristics of the oral resultant force - its normal and tangential components - for a g...

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Main Authors: Estevam Barbosa de Las Casas, André França de Almeida, Carlos Alberto Cimini Junior, Paulo de Tarso Vida Gomes, Tulimar Pereira Machado Cornacchia, Jorge Milton Elian Saffar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of São Paulo 2007-02-01
Series:Journal of Applied Oral Science
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1678-77572007000100015

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