Myths and Fallacies in Occlusion and Articulation
An evidence-based guide to occlusion and articulation.
This series of papers is for anyone who has struggled with the concepts of occlusion and articulation and aims to bust the mythology that surrounds these aspects of dentistry. If you feel quite comfortable with terms such as Canine guidance, Centric relation, Condylar axis of rotation, Condylar position, Cusp angles, Facebow transfer of condylar axis, Fully adjustable articulator, Hinge axis, Mathematical virtual articulator (and others), then these papers are not for you!
On the other hand, if you want to find out about facts not fallacies, and truths not myths, all based on current evidence and a biological not mechanistic view of the teeth and jaws, then I hope you will find something interesting in these paper. It turns out, as if we didn’t know before, that biological systems are complicated, but the good news is that they can be simplified by using principles based on evidence.
The papers were all published in the South Africa Dental Journal, now an open-access journal:
- An evidence based guide to occlusion and articulation Part 1 Occlusal terminology and and a guide to jaw movement
- An evidence based guide to occlusion and articulation Part 2 A guide to the evolution of the teeth and joint
- An evidence based guide to occlusion and articulation Part 3 A guide to functional occlusion Teeth vs joints
- An evidence based guide to occlusion and articulation Part 4 Unworn dentitions
- An evidence based guide to occlusion and articulation Part 5 Titanium and its influence on occlusion_ to cusp or not to cusp
- An evidence based guide to occlusion and articulation Part 6 Artificial jaws articulators real and imagined
- An evidence based guide to occlusion and articulation Part 7 Guidelines for mechanical articulator use and Conclusions