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Posted by: Scerif Fonz
« on: September 27, 2018, 05:40:14 pm »

Hello everyone, I read this forum for a while and there is something that still is not clear to me: where does the notion come from that the teeth should be slightly in contact at rest?

I tried a little bit on the Internet, and all the sites I checked report information like "The teeth must not touch even accidentally, otherwise nociceptive stimuli arrive to the brain, which must interpret and respond to this contact;  another site says "In the rest condition, ie with the chewing muscles relaxed, the teeth should not be in contact but have a "free space" of about 2 millimeters"

I also saw a video of Dr. Mike Mew, who answers just such a question, around the minute 10.30 https://youtu.be/U3owXWaV-I0?list=LLqGuAXGDiIG5disWywaFtZA&t=627. If I understand correctly (English is not my first language), it says that the teeth should not be in contact, but slightly separated , but you can check yourself in the link I have attached.

This information is of fundamental importance, not only for meowing correctly, but especially for the health of the stomatognathic apparatus in general, so I would like to understand the sources that say that the teeth should touch. Thank you all.