A model relating patterns of human jaw movement to biomechanical constraints.

After testing the effects of the ways in which several different ligaments and bony constraints would influence movements of the human mandible in three dimensions, a mathematical model based on constraints due to the articular eminences, temporomandibular ligaments and sphenomandibular ligaments has been constructed. The effects of these constraints on jaw movements during opening and lateral movements are analysed. The model predicts the observed translation of the human condyle during jaw opening and Bennett shift during lateral jaw movements. The model is refined to account for observed irregular movements of the condyle during opening and to predict a locus for the instantaneous centre of rotation. The model can also be used to predict the new position taken up by any point on the mandible after the jaw has been opened and/or moved laterally a given amount.

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