Determination of tangential and normal components of oral forces

• Main Authors: Estevam Barbosa de Las Casas (Author), André França de Almeida (Author), Carlos Alberto Cimini Junior (Author), Paulo de Tarso Vida Gomes (Author), Tulimar Pereira Machado Cornacchia (Author), Jorge Milton Elian Saffar (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: University of São Paulo, 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Oral forces applied to human teeth during biting and mastication are normally described in the literature only in terms of their axial components. The purpose of this study was to fully determine the spatial characteristics of the oral resultant force - its normal and tangential components - for a g...