Improved Prefrontal Activity and Chewing Performance as Function of Wearing Denture in Partially Edentulous Elderly Individuals: Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Study. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 The purpose of this study was to elucidate the effects of wearing a denture on prefrontal activity during chewing performance. We specifically examined that activity in 12 elderly edentulous subjects [63.1±6.1 years old (mean ± SD)] and 12 young healthy ...
Kazunobu Kamiya +2 more
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Journal of Oral Science, 2021 PURPOSE This study aimed to clarify whether occlusal force and masticatory performance reduced in elderly adults and whether these parameters were affected by age. METHODS Seventy-eight elderly adults (elderly group) and 76 young adults (control group)
Mako Sano, H. Shiga
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BMC Oral Health, 2022 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.
Yoshiki Uchida +8 more
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Common eating habit patterns are associated with a high maximum occlusal force and pre-eating cardiac vagal tone [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 Background Masticatory function is associated with nervous function, including autonomic nervous function, and both functions are influenced by human habits.
Masahiro Okada +2 more
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Factors Associated with Choking During Meals; a Risk Indicator for Repetitive Fevers in the Elderly Community [PDF]
, 2017 Background: Choking during meals is a common symptom in the elderly, however the factors associated with it have not been fully clarified. In this study, we examined the factors associated with choking during meals.
Nagata, E. (Emi) +2 more
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Unravelling the functional biomechanics of dental features and tooth wear [PDF]
, 2013 Most of the morphological features recognized in hominin teeth, particularly the topography of the occlusal surface, are generally interpreted as an evolutionary functional adaptation for mechanical food processing.
Benazzi, Stefano +3 more
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Functional status of masticatory system, excutive function and episodic memory in older persons. [PDF]
, 2008 Findings from human experimental studies suggest that mastication positively influences cognitive function. The participants in those studies were relatively young.
Beck AT +22 more
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New image analysis of large food particles can discriminate experimentally suppressed mastication [PDF]
, 2012 Objective parameters that could provide a basis for food texture selection for elderly or dysphagic patients have not been established. We, therefore, aimed to develop a precise method of measuring large particles (>2 mm in diameter) in a bolus and an ...
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Fem and Von Mises analysis of OSSTEM ® dental implant structural components: evaluation of different direction dynamic loads [PDF]
, 2018 PURPOSE: The objective of this investigation is to study prosthodontics and internal components resistance to the masticatory stress and considering different force directions by using Finite Element Method analysis (FEM).
Bramanti, E1 +10 more
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Orofacial muscles activity in children with swallowing dysfunction and removable functional appliances [PDF]
, 2019 Swallowing dysfunction is a frequent disorder among children and refers to an altered tongue posture and abnormal tongue movement during swallowing. Removable functional appliance is one of the treatments applied by dentistry to correct this disorder ...
Giustino, Valerio +5 more
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