What is it about?
when you get older, the height of lower face decreases because there are no teeth inside your mouth, like collapse of pillars! to reestablish those pillars, we need the length. now , how do you guess the length? maybe use thumb ! this article is about this idea.
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Why is it important?
to get the appropriate occlusal vertical dimension
Perspectives
I guess more research works should be done in the field of dentistry!
BISHAL BABU BASNET
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This page is a summary of: An anthropometric study to evaluate the correlation between the occlusal vertical dimension and length of the thumb, Clinical Cosmetic and Investigational Dentistry, February 2015, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.2147/ccide.s75872.
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