Mandibular Excursions

Oral functions, including predation, mastication, swallow, speech, respiration, taste, smile and so on, are the most important subjects for dentistry because the main existing purpose of this science is to reha- bilitate and/or habilitate them. Numerous attempts have been carried out to elucidate them, however none of them is completely explicated yet. Measurements of mandibular motion give a lot of suggestions to this purpose. In this article, the mandibular excursions, with occlusal contacts between maxilla and mandibular teeth, were explained and also the possibilities of clinical use for the oral functional examination of this movement were discussed