[Oro-facial behavior of smokers].
A preliminary study was conducted on twenty patients to study the oro-facial behaviour when smoking a cigarette. Such a study was realized with an electromyograph, an integrator and a magnetoscope which were combined. Two types of smokers were found: "a correlated" type for whom time and degree of activity of the different muscles had a tendency to become similar; in the "dissociated" type the two preceding parameters had a tendency to move away from each other, at least for certain muscles. Each smoker presented a very stable behavioural motor pattern.
D004576:Electromyography; D005152:Facial Muscles / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008410:Masticatory Muscles / Q000503:physiopathology*; D009043:Motor Activity; D009055:Mouth / Q000503:physiopathology*; D009068:Movement; D012907:Smoking / Q000503:physiopathology*; D013997:Time Factors
Le comportement oro-facial du fumeur