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A Digital Assessment Of Centric Relation Precision, Christine Roenitz

Master's Theses (2009 -)

Objective: Recording the centric relation position is a critical step in diagnosis and treatment in prosthodontics. There are various methods that can be used to position a patient’s mandible into centric relation. Among these are: swallow technique (unguided closure), chin-point guidance, and bimanual manipulation. The precision of these methods has previously been studied by traditional methods. Data is lacking on the precision of virtual recordings of these methods taken by an intraoral scanner. The purpose of this study was to assess the digital precision of the swallow, chin-point guidance, and bimanual manipulation centric relation positioning techniques.Materials and Methods: Ten participants …