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venerdì 19 giugno 2015

OCCLUSION, ORTHODONTICS AND POSTURE: ARE THERE EVIDENCE? THE EXAMPLE OF SCOLIOSIS

From International journal of stomatology & occlusion medicine

In presenting the correlation between dental occlusion and posture published data tends to lend comfortable support for the convictions and clinical impressions we have already formed. The physiological continuum tying occlusion to posture does not appear to be a univocal and linear relationship but instead a complex ensemble made up of numerous contributing factors.
We must ask ourselves, then, is the frequent association between posture and facial deformities the result of pure coincidence or is it evidence of a real pathological development whose meaning is just beginning to be clarified?
With what therapeutic techniques should we deal with these problems?