… role over longer periods of time. … mandible and masseter muscle and digastric muscle
activity up to ∼ 25 h. The extent to which habitually occurring bone strains were related to muscle-…

… Cycles Gerontology 2008;54:138–143 … studies on the elevator muscles of the mandible
during chewing cycles, comparing the beginning and the end of the chewing cycle, are still …

… jaw muscles as a percentage of the whole. This procedure illuminates the contrast between
species whose masticatory … varies dynamically throughout a masticatory cycle. Distortion of …

… Diagrams of chewing cycles plotted as vertical jaw movements against time (not to scale) to
show the terminology used to describe the various phases. See text for details. A In opossum …

… and in the whole mandible during a complete mastication cycle were reached … mandible
and TMJs is proposed to simulate a mastication cycle by applying the loads exerted by the jaw …

… of monkey biscuits, and all animals consistently exhibited less lateral excursion of the jaw
during the upward movement of the chewing cycle. Nevertheless, the lateral excursion was …

… Double-peaked EMG activities (ie, two peaks within a chewing cycle) occur in many muscles
except the jaw closer, suggesting a complex movement of the tongue (and the hyoid as the …

… The interplay with the dental occlusion primarily involves the jaw elevator muscles (ie the …
Although the occlusal phase only takes up about 20%i of each chewing cycle, both strength …

… ofthe mandible, rate of chewing, and the forces developed in … of voluntary movement to the
chewing cycle, and so bias or … or consistency for chewing will again afTect the chewing cycle. …

… to evaluate masticatory performance, mandibular movement, … of masticatory cycles to achieve
better mastication within a … no statistical differences in mandibular path characteristics in …