Evaluation of Efficacy, Patient Comfort and Accuracy of Biart in Occlusal Analysis

Abstract

Occlusal rehabilitation is an important step in full mouth rehabilitation to stabilize the occlusion. It is very important to identify and eliminate the occlusal interferences to equilibrate the forces and reduce stresses on the periodontium. The present study revolves around a new instrument called BiArt, a bilateral articulating paper holder which can be used to simultaneously check the centric and eccentric occlusal contacts on the right and the left side. It is crucial to check the centric occlusal contacts bilaterally in order to ensure the patient is biting in a repeatable position.This study aims at evaluating the patient comfort and the contacts created by BiArt in comparison with a unilateral articulating paper holder.Occlusal analysis of 15 patients was done using intra-oral occlusal photographs of dental articulating paper marks made using BiArt (to hold the articulating paper bilaterally) was compared with the occlusal contacts made using the conventional articulating paper holder ( holding a unilateral paper). A VAS scale was used to evaluate the patient’s experience.The marks made by the articulating paper using BiArt were 21.14% higher than the marks made using a unilateral articulating paper. There were some unique marks when using unilateral papers which accounts to 25.14% which are not true interferences. However, these could lead to unnecessary grinding.The results of this study give significant evidence on the efficacy, patient comfort and accuracy of Bi-Art compared to unilateral articulating paper holder. BiArt can be used as a reliable tool for occlusal adjustments compared to the conventional methods.