What's the difference between gnathic and prognathic?
Gnathic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the jaw.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Michigan splint is an occlusal appliance for patients with functional disturbances of the gnathic system.
(2) Such osteonecrosis occurred mainly in gnathic bone.
(3) The present study furthermore points to the importance of medical bionics and its methods for solving some other problems of the gnathic system.
(4) In spite of this, ecobotanical data indicate that we can probably reject the hypothesis that these hominids were year-round gnathic nut-cracking specialists.
(5) The progress of 23 adult patients during treatment for gnathic dysfunctions was monitored by gnathosonic techniques and graphs of the fluctuations in occlusal sound duration were studied.
(6) A one-stage surgical correction of gnathic deformities involving both jaws is described.
(7) A normal adult becomes a normal old man when going through a whole process of physiologic involution called natural ageing, which does not spare the stomato-gnathic system.
(8) Preliminary estimates of adult male gnathic nut-cracking capabilities suggest that A. boisei could have orally cracked a significant portion of the woodland nuts.
(9) Some Miocene hominoids may have been extremely sexually dimorphic for body size, inferred from the apparent dimorphism of dental and gnathic remains.
(10) The gnathic bones were commonly affected, yet there was no associated mortality.
(11) During growth and development of the gnathic bone in infants, it is not possible to observe the processes of resorption of the bone and deciduous tooth root, bone formation and calcification of the permanent teeth separately.
(12) The classification was found useful for identifying patients prone to gnathic dysfunctions as a significantly higher proportion of these patients were in Class C than in Class A.
(13) The dentitions of 146 children with cerebral palsy showed a high incidence of gnathic anomalies.
(14) In the gnathic bone of infants where a normal balance exists between formation of new tissue and resorption, the formative bone tissue is closely related to the cells which give rise to the deciduous and the permanent teeth.
(15) Phase II is the compensatory phase of the occlusion consisting of occlusal equilibration, occlusal restorations, orthodontic treatment and gnathic surgery if needed.
(16) The authors pay complex attention to the research of the gnathic system, focused first of all to the mechanical interactions towards solid formations of the gnathic system.
(17) Report is made about the combined therapy with cytostatics (methotrexate - bleomycin) and irradiation in patients with extended tumors in the gnathic region.
(18) The hypothetical hyperrobust australopithecine gnathic nutcracker adaptation is reexamined in light of ecobotanical information on edible wild nuts provided by the flora of tropical and subtropical Africa.
Prognathic
Definition:
(a.) Prognathous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since no single procedure can correct all the different forms of mandibular prognathism, each case is individually planned and a "custom-tailored" technique is applied.
(2) A complex form of pluridistrectual dysmorphic disorder (hypertelorism, prognathism, frontal bossing, multiple cysts of the mandible, calcification in falx cerebri, etc) was also present, suggesting a limited form of Gorlin's syndrome (nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome).
(3) Measurements of the cranial base angle and the prognathism of the maxilla and the mandible were performed on radiographs of cranial midsagittal tissue blocks of 52 fetuses with a gestational age from 13 to 27 weeks.
(4) In the literature, early intervention by tongue reduction is recommended in order to prevent both mandibular prognathism and open bite.
(5) The finite element method is used to predict facial deformation following orthognathic surgery for mandibular prognathism.
(6) The material consisted of presurgical and 1-year postsurgical profile cephalograms of 52 adult orthognathic surgery patients (40 females and 12 males) who initially had mandibular prognathism and had undergone bilateral vertical ramus osteotomy through an extraoral incision in the retroangular area.
(7) Special attention is paid to the type of the ostectomy, and the arguments for this procedure are exemplified by the investigation of 75 patients in whom a surgical correction of mandibular prognathism was performed.
(8) A case of mandibular prognathism that existed 15 years after a previous attempt at correction has been presented.
(9) Skeletal classifications were based on the relationship of the maxilla to the mandible; the three classifications were straight profile, retrusive chin profile, and prognathic profile.
(10) The aim of this research was to examine the effect of the chin cap on mandibular prognathism (Angle class III) with or without a Fränkel appliance.
(11) In the present article, a method of geometric correction of linear analysis of sagittal jaw relationship and jaw prognathism (based on a standardized occlusal plane) is described.
(12) The results of our investigations, therefore, demonstrate that after a resection of part of N. vagosympathicus peripheral to the ganglion nodosum on the right side two of the test dogs showed changes in the bite and in the position of teeth, a fan-shaped position of the incisors and canines, prognathism of the jaw including protrusion and changes in the parodont with some incisors becoming loose.
(13) Thirty-six patients with orthodontically treated mandibular prognathism were recalled for cephalometric and clinical evaluation.
(14) Linear measurements confirm a considerably larger dentoalveolar prognathism in the Hindu group.
(15) Stability of the mandible was analysed with a Xerox copy of the dental cast in 35 cases of mandibular prognathism corrected by ramus osteotomies.
(16) The presurgical and postsurgical lateral cephalograms of 50 consecutively treated patients (37 females and 13 males) were used; these patients had received combined orthodontic-surgical management of mandibular prognathism by means of a bilateral vertical ramus osteotomy with an extraoral approach.
(17) The mandibular body ostectomy operation is indicated for specific cases of mandibular prognathism where posterior occlusion is to remain unchanged.
(18) The aim of the present investigation was to study the changes in the number and intensity of occlusal tooth contacts in the intercuspal position following surgical correction of mandibular prognathism.
(19) Their clinical manifestations included brachycephaly, midface hypoplasia, prognathism, upper lip eversion, short and broad hands with short fingers, clinodactyly of the fifth fingers, fingertip pads, moderate mental retardation, and behavior problems.
(20) Patients diagnosed with mandibular hypoplasia perceived themselves significantly more prognathic on the maxillary dimension and most retrognathic on the mandibular dimension; their self-drawings reflected a shorter vertical dimension.