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Orofacial Motricity: From the Emergence of a Field to the Path Toward Global Terminology Standardization

  • Lucas Ferreira,
  • Roberta Lopes de Castro Martinelli,
  • Gislaine Aparecida Folha,
  • Gabriele Ramos de Luccas and ,
  • Giorvan Ânderson dos Santos Alves,
  • Diana Grandi,
  • Adriano Rockland Siqueira Campos,
  • Eliana Elizabeth Rivera-Capacho,
  • Norma Chiavaro and
  • Giédre Berretin-Felix
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Int. J. Orofac. Myol. Myofunct. Ther.2026, 52(1), 6;https://doi.org/10.3390/ijom52010006

21 May 2026

Background: The consolidation of specialized fields in health care requires not only scientific evidence and clinical refinement, but also clearly defined scope, competencies, and language, since terminological ambiguity increases overlap and hinders...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 50 Years of the IJOM: Perspectives and Future Directions in Orofacial Myology and Myofunctional Therapy)
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The Masticatory System of the Obese: Clinical and Electromyographic Evaluation

  • Adriana Bueno de Figueiredo,
  • Alfredo Halpern,
  • Marcio Correia Mancini and
  • Cintia Cercato
Int. J. Orofac. Myol. Myofunct. Ther.2014, 40(1), 31-41;https://doi.org/10.52010/ijom.2014.40.1.3

1 November 2014

Masticatory performance is determined not only through the speed of mastication, or by the quantity of food ingested; it also depends on the structures and functional integration of the stomatognathic system (SS). Objectives: this study investigated...

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