Volume 24, Issue 105, September - October, 2020

Digital occlusal analysis using T scan: Its role, mechanism, accuracy and application

Arihant Bathiya¹, Sweta Kale Pisulkar^2♦

¹PhD scholar, Department of Prosthodontics and Crown & Bridge, Shard Pawar Dental college and Hospital, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences, (Deemed to be University), Sawangi (Meghe), Wardha, Maharashtra, India; Email: arihantbathiya@gmail.com
²Associate Professor, Department of Prosthodontics and Crown & Bridge, Shard Pawar Dental college and Hospital, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences, Deemed to be University, Sawangi (Meghe), Wardha, Maharashtra, India; Email: drsweta15@gmail.com

^♦Corresponding author
Associate Professor, Department of Prosthodontics and Crown & Bridge, Shard Pawar Dental College and Hospital, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences; deemed to be University, Sawangi (Meghe), Wardha, Maharashtra, India; Email: drsweta15@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

Occlusal considerations play a vital role for in any treatment success. Occlusion is speciality of interdisciplinary science. It attracts the interest of various specialties like Prosthodontics, Oral surgery, Implantology, Periodontics, Pedodontics, Endodontics. Various method and techniques are available for adjusting occlusion, articulating paper being one of the common and traditionally used methods. But it has certain considerable drawbacks like inability to measure force and time and the sequence of teeth contacts. These inherent shortcomings are totally overcome using T scan. In various field like myofuctional and temporomandibular joint dysfunction, T scan is proven advantageous. The purpose of this review article is to offer an insight on T scan treatment modality, with its mechanism, assemblage, advantages, limitations for better understanding and clinical applications.

Keywords: T scan, Computerized Occlusal analysis, Digital Analysis

Medical Science, 2020, 24(105), 2826-2834

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