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ArticleBioengineering (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Literature Review of an Anterior Deprogrammer to Determine the Centric Relation and Presentation of Cases.

Maria Danko, Lubos Chromy, Norbert Ferencik, Marcela Sestakova, Petra Kolembusova, Tomas Balint, Jaroslav Durica, Jozef Zivcak

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Article in Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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8 authors.

Maria DankoDepartment of Biomedical Engineering and Measurement, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Kosice, 04200 Kosice, Slovakia.ORCID 0000-0001-9577-2043
Lubos ChromyDepartment of Biomedical Engineering and Measurement, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Kosice, 04200 Kosice, Slovakia.
Norbert FerencikDepartment of Biomedical Engineering and Measurement, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Kosice, 04200 Kosice, Slovakia.ORCID 0000-0002-9648-5799
Marcela Sestakova1st Department of Stomatology, Faculty of Medicine, Pavol Jozef Safarik University in Kosice, 04154 Kosice, Slovakia.ORCID 0000-0002-7906-2700
Petra KolembusovaDepartment of Biomedical Engineering and Measurement, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Kosice, 04200 Kosice, Slovakia.
Tomas BalintDepartment of Biomedical Engineering and Measurement, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Kosice, 04200 Kosice, Slovakia.ORCID 0000-0002-1944-2867
Jaroslav Durica1st Department of Stomatology, Faculty of Medicine, Pavol Jozef Safarik University in Kosice, 04154 Kosice, Slovakia.
Jozef ZivcakDepartment of Biomedical Engineering and Measurement, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Kosice, 04200 Kosice, Slovakia.

Funding

Slovak Research and Development Agency APVV-17-0278Slovak Research and Development Agency APVV-19-0290The Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic KEGA 044TUKE-4/2022, 01/2022 - 12/2024The Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic KEGA 050TUKE-4/2022
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The increasing demand for dental aesthetics, articulation corrections, and solutions for pain and frequent bruxism demands quick and effective restorative dental management. The biomedical research aimed to create a beneficial, ecological, and readily available anterior deprogrammer to determine the centric relation (CR) of cases. This medical device is additively manufactured from a biocompatible material. Size is customizable based on the width of the patient's anterior central incisors. This is a pilot study with two subjects. The task was to develop a complete data protocol for the production process, computer-aided design (CAD), and three-dimensional (3D) printing of the anterior deprogrammers. The research focused on creating simple and practically applicable tools for the dentist's prescription (anterior deprogrammer in three sizes), and secondly for the communication between the dentist and the patient (computer application). The tested hypothesis was whether, according to these novel tools, it is possible to produce functional occlusal splints, which could be manufactured using current technologies. This study compared a traditional splint with a digitally designed and 3D-printed one. The tested hypothesis was whether manufactured occlusal splints differ in patients' subjective perception of comfort. Each conservative treatment was monitored for ten weeks. Initial results are promising; no statistically significant difference was found between the productive technologies.

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3D printinganterior deprogrammerbruxismnight guardocclusal splint

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PMID38135970
PMCPMC10740564

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