After reading this article, clinicians should be better equipped to successfully implement splint therapy into their armamentarium of treatment options in managing masticatory system disorders.
And many scientists think that as people's diets have become less chewy, their jaws have gotten smaller — and that this has led to dental crowding, resulting in dental crookedness and impacted wisdom teeth.
Teeth messing up the spine might sound hard to believe but this review paper looking at multiple papers' investigation indeed revealed plausible evidence for bite alignment affecting spinal alignment.
These are trap-jaw ants, and although they don't move their whole bodies, they can snap their jaws shut in less than a thousandth of a second, which is an acceleration of around 100,000 g's.
For example, we might say that cheetahs are one of the fastest land animals that we know of... because we know that's just running speed, not flying or snapping jaws shut or things like that.
And because the hagfish's skin is so loosely attached to the rest of its body, the pressure from the bite causes the hagfish's essential organs to slip out of the way, avoiding damage.