Design Elements to Improve Mechanical and Clinical Parameters of a Total Temporomandibular Joint Replacement KU Leuven
The temporomandibular joint (TMJ) has multiple vital functions (e.g. chewing, breathing, sucking, swallowing,…) which are all derived from protrusion, retrusion, and lateralization of the mandible and opening and closing of the mouth. These are complex combinations of rotations and translations, which is a unique feature in the human body, as well as it being a bilateral joint acting as one unit. Temporomandibular disorders (TMDs) are common, ...