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A Qualitative Engineering Analysis of Occlusion Effects on Mandibular Fracture Repair Mechanics

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(a) Nonlever model of the mandible illustrating a generic tooth contact, adapted from Katona [24]. The approximation to the centroidal (neutral) axis of the mandible (dashed line) is a distance ℊ below the tooth-tooth contact point. The anterior section of interest is demarcated by horizontal distance ℎ from the tooth contact. (b) FBD (free-body diagram) of the (fractured-off or imaginary) anterior segment.

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  1. Published October 7, 2011, doi: 10.4061/2011/752741 J Dent Biomech vol. 2 no. 1
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