An Important Property of the Masticatory Force

¹ National Biomedical Research Foundation, Silver Spring, Maryland

The meaning of the relation of equation (2) is summarized in Figure 2. The same graph of force direction F vs. tooth surface slope S can be used for different angles of chew M. For in order to obtain the values of F vs. S for M + , we need merely observe the values for F – and S + , or, equivalently, use a translated F – S axis-set, as illustrated in Figure 2.