title: A clinical study of rest position using the Kinesiograph and Myomonitor.
abstract: The clinical study was designed to study the vertical dimension of rest position and mandibular closure to maximum intercuspation of the teeth before, during, and after relaxation procedures on 14 subjects with stable dentitions. The findings call attention to the potential of both the Myomonitor and the Kinesiograph for research and clinical use, to the physiologic need for flexibility of the vertical dimension of rest position, and to the importance of measuring all three dimensions when examining the rest position.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003748:Dental Equipment; D003768:Dental Occlusion, Centric; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008334:Mandible / Q000502:physiology*; D008410:Masticatory Muscles / Q000502:physiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation*; D009068:Movement; D009126:Muscle Relaxation; D014070:Tooth / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D014716:Vertical Dimension