[Dental equilibration by selective grinding or occlusal adjustment].

Abstract

Oclusal adjustment or selective grinding is an operative procedure that must be diagnosed and well planned before making in the patient the clinical steps. Thus it's critical to make the diagnosis and treatment planning by means of casts mounted on semiadjustables articulators, over which is necessary to work first. Remember that the oclusal adjustment is an irreversible media of dental structures substraction that can be made as a unique type of treatment before the operative dentistry and prostodontics. The elimination of the symptoms are the goal of the treatment, and a step that can't be avoided after an ortodontic treatment.