PURPOSE To evaluate chewing and swallowing functions in women with and without temporomandibular disorder (TMD) and investigate the position of the mandible and the hyoid bone as they are important structures in the development of these functions. METHODS Seventy women were evaluated in relation to TMD diagnosis according to the Research Diagnostic Criteria, among them, 34 composed the study ...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Aspiration, the passage of a bolus below the vocal folds, increases morbidity and mortality in the elderly by increasing the risk of aspiration pneumonia and other conditions. We hypothesized that altered position of the hyoid bone associated with aging may negatively affect airway protection during swallowing (i.e., aspiration) in older adults. STUDY DESIGN Retrospectiv...

objective: the knowledge of anatomic landmarks’ positions, including inferior alveolar nerve’s canal, is crucial for dentist, who has to master it. it is important to know the exact location and anatomic variety of this canal for different procedures of mandibular surgeries. the aim of the present study was to evaluate inferior mandibular canal’s anatomic position by cone-beam computed tomograp...

Foramen of mandible is the most important point considering the Halsted anesthesia. Position of this foramen seems to be stable, however there are lots of controversies regarded to its position. Based on the current literature authors revised datas from literature considering the location of the mandibular foramen.

A test of the accuracy in transferring the virtual data into the surgical environment was carried out. Differences between the virtually planned and the actual position during surgery of the rapid prototyped guides and the bone plates were investigated. The accuracy of the method was evaluated in terms of the precision of cuts in the mandible, the final positions of the rami and condyles, and t...

Certain recurrent consonant-vowel co-occurrence frequency biases have often been attributed to the biomechanics of the mandible. This paper takes issue with this claim by pointing to some methodological flaws in the literature supporting it. CV co-occurrence data on Spanish and Portuguese are brought to bear on such neglected issues as sampling, effect size, and count type. It is shown that sma...