Force Outliers are individual tooth contacts that demonstrate much higher relative force than others, at any given moment during a mandibular closure. As a movie plays forward from the first contact, occlusal contacts that exceed a higher relative force threshold compared to other contacting teeth, are denoted with an individually colored outline in both the 2D and 3D ForceViews. These contacts are designated as an outlier , when that outlier passes a higher force threshold compared to the rest of the occluding teeth. The Force vs. Time Graph removes the Total Force Line and instead, represents each Force Outlier that occurred throughout the recording.
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T-Scan 8 Recording Dynamics, System Features, and Clinician User Skills
Robert B. Kerstein, DMD (Former Clinical Professor at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, USA & Private Dental Practice Limited to Prosthodontics and Computerized Occlusal Analysis, USA) and Robert Anselmi (McGill University, Canada)
Copyright: © 2015
|Pages: 57
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-6587-3.ch004
Abstract
The newly designed T-Scan 8 Computerized Occlusal Analysis system represents the state-of-the-art in occlusal diagnosis. The reliability of the system's high definition recording sensors, the many occlusal analysis timing and force software features, and the modern-day computer hardware electronics that record occlusal function in 0.003 second real-time increments affords a clinician unparalleled occlusal contact timing and force information with which to predictably diagnose and treat many occlusal abnormalities. T-Scan 8 represents the culmination of 30 years of T-Scan technology innovation and development with revised desktop graphics and less toolbar buttons for simpler graphical display designed to shorten the T-Scan learning curve. The chapter also discusses five useful diagnostic occlusal recordings employed when treating commonly observed occlusal problems. Lastly, the chapter outlines the three Learning Levels of T-Scan mastery that must be accomplished for a clinician to become an effective and competent T-Scan user.