Articulators and gnathology: better care is the real goal.
2006
Richard M Port
UI
MeSH Term
Description
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D009970
Orthodontics
A dental specialty concerned with the prevention and correction of dental and oral anomalies (malocclusion).
D003725
Dental Articulators
Mechanical devices that simulate the temporomandibular joints and jaws to which maxillary and mandibular casts are attached. The entire assembly attempts to reproduce the movements of the mandible and the various tooth-to-tooth relationships that accompany those movements.
Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D016302
Centric Relation
The location of the maxillary and the mandibular condyles when they are in their most posterior and superior positions in their fossae of the temporomandibular joint.