Abstract
For the subject: “regarding the significance and philosophy of occlusal contacts in clinical prosthodontics and related examination methods”, references were searched from MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Igaku Chuo Zasshi (ICHUSHI) as secondary databases. Setting “Occlusion & Intercuspal position” or “Kougou sessyoku & Koutou kangoui in Japanese” as words for retrieval, I obtained references published between January 1, 1990 and December 31, 2013.
Focusing on original articles on permanent adult dentition, the following were excluded: 1. Papers written in languages other than English or Japanese, 2. Articles on simulation using casts or mathematical models, 3. Studies in which occlusal interference was experimentally simulated, 4. Books, Case reports and Reviews. Furthermore, a manual hand-search was performed to select original articles whose abstracts and methods were clinical.Based on occlusion being contact between viscoelastic structures, normal intercuspation was reviewed, referring to the reliability of the detecting methods of occlusal contacts.
