Masticatory loadings and cranial deformation in Macaca fascicularis: a finite element analysis sensitivity study

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Summary

This study for the first time systematically quantifies the sensitivity of an FEA model of a primate skull to widely varying masticatory muscle activations and finds that reasonable variants of muscle loading for a second molar bite have considerably less effect on cranial deformation and the resulting strain map than does varying molar Bite point.

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Published
2012-07-01
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Keywords

Bite force quotient, Masticatory force, Biting, Masseter muscle, Zygomatic arch

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