Journal of Oral Rehabilitation

Articles

• Speech, eating and saliva control in rare diseases – a database study

  10 juin 2015, par L. Sjögreen, Å. Mogren, J. Andersson-Norinder, J. Bratel
  The aim was to study the background to and the manifestations of affected intelligibility of speech and reported difficulty with eating and saliva control in rare diseases. In Sweden, a disease or disorder is defined as rare when it affects no more than 100 individuals per million population (...)

• Manual therapy for the management of pain and limited range of motion in subjects with signs and symptoms of temporomandibular disorder : a systematic review of randomised controlled trials

  8 juin 2015, par L. B. Calixtre, R. F. C. Moreira, G. H. Franchini, F. Alburquerque-Sendín, A. B. Oliveira
  There is a lack of knowledge about the effectiveness of manual therapy (MT) on subjects with temporomandibular disorders (TMD). The aim of this systematic review is to synthetise evidence regarding the isolated effect of MT in improving maximum mouth opening (MMO) and pain in subjects with (...)

• Agreement between clinical and portable EMG/ECG diagnosis of sleep bruxism

  8 juin 2015, par T. Castroflorio, A. Bargellini, G. Rossini, G. Cugliari, A. Deregibus, D. Manfredini
  The aim of this study was to compare clinical sleep bruxism (SB) diagnosis with an instrumental diagnosis obtained with a device providing electromyography/electrocardiography (EMG/ECG) recordings. Forty-five (N = 45) subjects (19 males and 26 females, mean age 28 ± 11 years) were selected among (...)

• A field survey of the partially edentate elderly : Investigation of factors related to the usage rate of removable partial dentures

  8 juin 2015, par S. Murai, K. Matsuda, K. Ikebe, K. Enoki, K. Hatta, K. Fujiwara, Y. Maeda
  Although the shortened dental arch (SDA) concept has been known to all over the world, acceptance of the SDA concept as an oral health standard can be questionable from the patients' point of view, even if it is biologically reasonable. Furthermore, because the health insurance system covers (...)

• Effect of hypnosis on masseter EMG recorded during the ‘resting’ and a slightly open jaw posture

  8 juin 2015, par N. Al-Enaizan, K. J. Davey, M. F. Lyons, S. W. Cadden
  The aim of this experimental study was to determine whether minimal levels of electromyographic activity in the masseter muscle are altered when individuals are in a verified hypnotic state. Experiments were performed on 17 volunteer subjects (8 male, 9 female) all of whom gave informed (...)