occlusal plane

There may be a coexistant linea alba which corresponds to the occlusal plane.

A normal occlusal plane according to Andrews should be flat, with the curve of Spee not exceeding 1.5mm.

Morsicatio buccarum and linea alba are located at the level of the occlusal plane (the level at which the teeth meet).

For example, two teeth exposed on the occlusal plane of the rostral third and the posterior third of the dentary and maxilla, respectively.

Cephalometric analysis is the most accurate way of determining all types of prognathism, as it includes assessments of skeletal base, occlusal plane angulation, facial height, soft tissue assessment and anterior dental angulation.

The Curve of Spee is distinct from the Curve of Wilson, which is the upward (U-shaped) curvature of the maxillary and mandibular occlusal planes in the coronal plane.

Lefort III - Tenderness and separation at frontozygomatic suture, lengthening of face, depression of occular levels, enophthalmos, hooding of eyes, tilting of occlusal plane with gagging on one side.

The lesions are located on the mucosa, usually bilaterally in the central part of the anterior buccal mucosa and along the level of the occlusal plane (the level at which the upper and lower teeth meet).

Diadectids likely had strong jaw muscles for processing plant material; the placement of the jaw joints above or below the level of the occlusal planes (the planes at which the teeth come together) would have given diadectid jaws mechanical advantage.

Vazirani-Akinosi technique - Invented by Sunder J. Vazirani in 1960 and later reintroduced in 1977 by Oyekunle J. Akinosi, a closed-mouth injection technique, the syringe is "advanced parallel to the maxillary occlusal plane at the level of the maxillary mucogingival junction."

In anatomy, the Curve of Spee (called also von Spee's curve or Spee's curvature) is defined as the curvature of the mandibular occlusal plane beginning at the tip of the lower cuspid and following the buccal cusps of the posterior teeth, continuing to the terminal molar.