1996 Volume 40 Issue 1 Pages 1-23
In order to verify the relation between the body function and occlusion, the gravity function, electronystagmography, and auditory brainstem response of TMD patients, edentulous patients and healthy subjects with 500 μm thick experimental occlusal interference were analyzed, and it was confirmed that occlusal problems impede the auditory system, body's posture adjusting system and vestibule system. Further, when the relation between the occlusal contact and the bodily motor function were compared between healthy subjects and patients whose occlusion had been treated, it was confirmed that there was close relation between the two.Furthermore, from the analysis of human body phenomena of healthy subjects with 100 μm thick experimental occlusal interference, it was confirmed that occlusal problems induced bruxism or continuously aggravated the problem and eventually entailed TMD, as well as changed the function of the autonomic nervous system and provoked emotional stress and sleep disorders.
From these results, it was verified that occlusal problems affected the function of the middle ear transmission system, equilibrium sense, auditory brainstem response, function of autonomic nervous system, emotion and sleep and that the occlusal function was closely related to the bodily motor function.
