Comparison of oral hypofunction tests and determination of reference values for a subjective masticatory function test

• Main Authors: Yoshiki Uchida (Author), Yuji Sato (Author), Noboru Kitagawa (Author), Junichi Furuya (Author), Tokiko Osawa (Author), Akio Isobe (Author), Mayumi Terazawa (Author), Yukiko Hatanaka (Author), Toshiharu Shichita (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background In Japan, oral hypofunction has been recognized as a disease since 2018. An alternative to occlusal force testing for assessing oral hypofunction is the evaluation of the number of natural teeth. Subjective masticatory function testing, which evaluates the ease or difficulty in c...