Oral Health and Dental Management

Confection of an occlusal stability intra-oral device for violin players

International Conference and Exhibition on Dentistry

March 18-20, 2015 Dubai, UAE

Agostinho Martins dos Santos and Jo?o Ferreira de Pinho

Posters-Accepted Abstracts: Oral Health Dent Manag

Abstract:

The study of the mandibular cinematic has implication on different areas of dental medicine. Movement patterns are dependent on the muscles, temporomandibular joint and associated structures. What isobserved in violin players is that they place the mandibula to the side in which they rest the violin to better stabilize it with the shoulder. This position can be harmful to the masticatory muscles and the temporomandibular joint. We idealized and fabricated an intra-oral device capable of providing oclusal stability and muscle tension relief referred by the violin players. Teeth casts from violinists were made as well as a register of intermaxilar relation of their most usual position in which they play violin as well as a facial arc register. The casts were assembled in the Protar articulator (KaVo) and the device was made with the Erko-Loc Pro (Erkodent) 3mm plates. The device was made, individualized and adjusted with the T-scan device (Teskan) during violin playing. Through a visual scale of confort the musicians reported how much relief they felt with the device and without the device after a week of usage. There was a positive feedback from the musicians as the device stopped reported teeth grinding and provided a relief of facial muscle tension that followed the long hours of violin practice as well as a feeling of having all the teeth contacting as there was achieved contralateral contacts disorders due the improvements in occlusal stability given with contralateral contacts and the relief of facial muscle pain.

Biography :

Agostinho Martins dos Santos finished his Master?s degree at the Faculty of Dental Medicine in the year 2013 and has ever since been working alongside with Associated Professor Jo?o Carlos Pinho at the occlusion, TMJ, and orofacial pain department.