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Source Chapter
Introduction
  • Status quo and critical issues
  • Logic of medical language
    • Classical logic
    • Probabilistic logic
    • Fuzzy logic
    • System logic
  • 1st Case report: Emimasticatory spasm
  • Complex Systems
    • Emergent Behavior
    • Coherence and decoherence
  • Conclusive considerations
Vertical Occlusal Dimension
  • Status quo
  • Procedures and variables
  • 1st Case report: Fasciculations
  • Conclusive considerations
Bruxism
  • Status quo
  • 2nd Case report: Pineal Cavernoma
  • Conclusive considerations
Occlusion and Posture
  • Status quo
  • 3rd Clinical Case: Meningioma
  • Conclusive considerations
Orofacial Pain
  • Status quo
  • 4° Case report: Eaton Lambert myasthenia
  • 5° Case report: Postpoly syndrome
  • 6° Case report: Temporomandibular disorders
  • Conclusive considerations
Are we really sure to know everything?
  • Status quo
  • 7° Case report: Trigeminal degenerative neuropathy
  • Conclusive considerations
Connectivity and Complex Systems
  • Definition of the Fundamental Unit
  • Structural and functional connectivity Separation
  • Understanding of "Emergent Behavior"
  • Connectivity measurement
System Inference vs Symptom Inference
  • System Stochasticity
  • Markov chains
  • Inference of nonlinear Markov processes
  • Understanding of Network nodes
Neurogenetic network nodes
  • Masticatory Central Nervous System
    • Brain Mechanisms
    • Mesencephalic mechanisms
    • Center of the Masticatory Pattern
    • Trigeminal Motor nucleus
Sensory network nodes
  • Proprioceptive mechanisms
    • Neuromuscular spindles
    • Sensory mechanisms from the depressor muscles
    • Golgi Tendon Organs
  • Role of impulses from the neck muscles
  • Periodontal and Oral Sensory Factors
  • Pharyngeal sensory factors
  • Reflex of mandibular closure
  • Sensory factors of the TMJ
Neuromuscular function of the tongue
  • Hypoglossal nucleus
  • Sensory-motor relationships of the tongue and jaw
  • Tongue-Hipoglossus reflex
  • Autogenous control of the muscle tongue activities
Conclusions to the Source Chapter
  • Status quo and critical issues
  • Consideration about system anomalies


Crisis of the Masticatory Paradigm
Research Diagnostic Criteria
  • Sensitivity, Specificity and Predictive Values
  • Advantages and limitations of the RDC
Masticatory cycles
  • Jaw opening width
  • Speed of mandibular movement
  • Complexity of chewing kinematics
Temporomandibular Joint
  • Computerized Tomography of the TMJ
  • Magnetic resonance imaging of the TMJ
Mandibular kinematic replicator
  • Advantages and limits of pantography
    • Pantographic Reproducibility Index
  • Advantages and limits of axiography
  • Advantages and limits of the electrognatography
Transcutaneous Electric Nerve Stimulation
  • Free way space before stimulation
  • Free way space after stimulation
  • Closing trajectory from TENS
  • Difference between TENS and MEP
Electromyography
  • Interferential EMG
  • EMG at rest position
  • Quantitative analysis of the EMG
    • Fourier transform
    • Wavelet


Extraordinary Science Paradigm
Overall view of the Masticatory System
  • Trigemnal electrophysiology
  • Trigeminal electrophysiological segmentation
    • Electric Motors Evoked Potentials
    • Magnetic Motors Evoked Potentials
    • Jaw jerk reflex
    • M-wave
    • Masseteric Mechanical Silent Period
    • Masseteric Electric Silent Period
    • Masseteric Laser Silent Period
    • Recovery Cycle of Masseteric Inhibitory reflex
Trigeminal System Connectivity
  • Definition of the Fundamental Unit
    • Maximal Neuronal Energy Evoked
    • Organic motor symmetry
    • Functional motor symmetry
    • Renormalization
  • Separation of structural and functional connectivity
    • Organic vs Functional Symmetry
      • Functional Neuro Gnathological Index "NGF"
  • Understanding of "Emergent Behavior"
    • The masticatory Function
    • Quantification of trigeminal motor cortical recruitment
  • Connectivity Measurement of "NGF"Index
    • The objective data
      • Orthognathic
      • Orthodontics
      • Implantprosthetics
      • Prosthetics