⭐ TRAUMA FROM OCCLUSION

📌 POINTS TO PONDER

🔹Physiologic occlusion was defined by Goldman and Cohen as one that operates in harmony and presents no pathologic manifestations in the supporting structures of the teeth. A physiologic occlusion is one that may be anatomic malocclusion but free of any occlusally-induced disease.

🔹A pathologic occlusion is one which requires therapeutic alteration of present occlusion as it shows evidence of disease owing to occlusal activity.

🔹Drifting differs from PTM in that it does not result from destruction of periodontal tissues.

🔹 Karolyi Effect: An effect named after Moritz Karolyi,a Viennese dentist who described the possible role of hyperfunction of the masticatory muscles in eliciting traumatic occlusion as a cause of periodontitis. He recommended its correction by grinding the occlusal surfaces and the use of bite planes at night. Karolyi introduced the current concept of bruxism but never used the term.