Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the correlation among preferred chewing, the deviated side of the mandible, and the horizontal condylar angle.
Subjects consisted of 32 adult patients with mandibular asymmetry.
1. No significant differences were found between the angle of the condylar long axis and the deviated side of the mandible.
2. No significant differences were found between the preferred chewing side and the deviated side of the mandible.
3. There was a significant difference between the horizontal condylar angle and the preferred chewing side. The horizontal condylar angle was in accord with the preferred chewing side.
4. It is suggested that the mastication pattern has a close relationship with the balance of the condylar angle.
5. All but one subject with mandibular asymmetry had a habit of one-sided chewing.
