Research Article
Biomechanical Stress and Strain Analysis of Mandibular Human Region from Computed Tomography to Custom Implant Development
Table 1
Direction in space of the force vectors representing each muscle of mastication and its magnitude. Source: adapted from Bertol [
20].
| Muscles | -axis (N) | -axis (N) | -axis (N) | Magnitude (N) |
| Masseter right | 104,7 | −51,7 | 221,2 | 250 | Masseter left | −104,7 | −51,7 | 221,2 | 250 | Temporal right | −50,0 | 22,1 | 83,7 | 100 | Temporal left | 50,0 | 22,1 | 83,7 | 100 | Medial pterygoid right | 55,8 | −72,9 | 118,6 | 150 | Medial pterygoid left | −55,8 | −72,9 | 118,6 | 150 |
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