[Analysis of the rule of guiding inclinations of maxillary posterior teeth and their correlation with mandibular movement trajectory angles].

Researchers measured how upper back teeth guide lower jaw movement in 18 volunteers with normal bites, finding that tooth inclination angles and jaw movement trajectory angles correlated during lateral movements but not during forward movement.

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