INTRODUCTION TO EDENTULOUS CONDITION

TOPIC: INTRODUCTION TO EDENTULOUS STATE

🎯 KEY POINTS

🔹 Complete Denture Prosthodontics deals with replacement of all the natural teeth with artificial substitutes.

🔹Somatoprosthetics is the art and science of prosthetic replacement of the external parts of the body that are missing or deformed

🔹Myotatic Reflex is the mechanism that mediates the jaw-closing reflex and the jaw-jerk reflex.

🔹Chewing Cycle in a dentulous patient when viewed in the frontal plane demonstrates the jaw motion in the shape of tear drop.