Pöllmann, Ludwig
Fachgebiet für Arbeitsphysiologie und Rehabilitationsforschung
der Universität Marburg/Lahn, Germany

INTRODUCTION The purpose of the study was to have a look on the different levels of time structures of teeth.

METHODS In healthy teeth or gaps of teeth we controlled the dental pulsations in the pulse range, the reactions of teeth on differently thick splints and at least we measured the ability of hard biting in the follow-up.

RESULTS Pulsations in the heart rate of the dental tissue had been described long time ago, reassured with modern methodology by splints or coping with different distances (0.1, 0.5, 1.0 mm) showed that the changes are not beginning with a big gap and than remain. Moreover, they demonstrate that physiological mechanismus of adaptation influence the results with elevations around day 7 and 14. At least, from one subject with a gap in the row of teeth it could be shown that the possibility to chew hard substances is undergoing big differences in the mode of a circaseptan variation.

DISCUSSIONS Even the teeth show a complex system of changes in the mode of different levels in time structure. Those variations on differing levels can only be reassured by electronic telemetry systems, because the subjects are not able to suffer the old mechanically working systems.

Technical assistance by Herrn Richard Schneider and Herrn Manfred Kessler