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Measurement of myoelectric silent period parameters: evaluation of an automatized algorithm

Electromyography is used in dentistry to assess the relationship of craniomandibular muscles activity, facial morphology and occlusal stability. Myoelectric silent periods are used in clinical diagnostics and treatment follow up. Rather complicated instrumentation is demanded for silent period parameters measurement. Supported with appropriate software tools, measurement procedures become less demanding. In this paper, a automatized silent period parameters measurement algorithm is described and validated on signals recorded from jaw closing muscles. Compared to measurement results of an expert, the parameter values obtained by the algorithm show good matching in 65% of evaluated signals.

electromyography; silent period; occlusal sounds

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