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title: Chewing Test
description: The Chewing Test measures the neuromuscular coordination during the masticatory activity.
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# Chewing Test

## The Chewing Test measures the neuromuscular coordination during the masticatory activity.

- To proceed with a new acquisition, from the Home screen of the software, select the desired patient. From the Patient screen, in the Test section, click on Chewing Test.

![](https://support.teethan.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Screenshot%202023-01-26%20alle%2009-39-20-png.png?width=468&height=263&name=Screenshot%202023-01-26%20alle%2009-39-20-png.png)

 

- Insert the cotton rolls between the arches on the second premolars and molars

![](https://support.teethan.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Screenshot%202023-01-26%20alle%2009-41-58-png.png?width=251&height=232&name=Screenshot%202023-01-26%20alle%2009-41-58-png.png)

 

 

 

 

- Ask the patient to clench their teeth as hard as possible
  
  ![](https://support.teethan.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Screenshot%202023-01-26%20alle%2009-41-58%202-png.png?width=251&height=238&name=Screenshot%202023-01-26%20alle%2009-41-58%202-png.png)

 

 

 

 

- To start the Calibration, press the Rec button ![](https://support.teethan.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Screenshot%202023-01-26%20alle%2009-46-17-png.png?width=33&height=33&name=Screenshot%202023-01-26%20alle%2009-46-17-png.png). The recording will stop automatically after five seconds

![](https://support.teethan.com/hubfs/Raggruppa%206128-png.png)

⚠️🚨*Teethan's Calibration Test is mandatory and it is meant to adapt the technology to each and every patient's neuromuscular strategy of occlusion.*

 

- Once you have acquired the Chewing Calibration Test, click on ![](https://support.teethan.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Raggruppa%206203-png.png?width=103&height=25&name=Raggruppa%206203-png.png) to move onto the next step
- After removing the cotton rolls, provide the patient with a piece of chewing gum and ask them to chew **only on the right side**. To start the recording, press the Rec button ![](https://support.teethan.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Screenshot%202023-01-26%20alle%2009-46-17-png.png?width=33&height=33&name=Screenshot%202023-01-26%20alle%2009-46-17-png.png). The recording will stop automatically after 15 seconds.

![](https://support.teethan.com/hubfs/Raggruppa%206205-png.png)

- Ask the patient to move the chewing gum to the left side and chew **on the left side only**. To start the Test click on the Rec button ![](https://support.teethan.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Screenshot%202023-01-26%20alle%2009-46-17-png.png?width=33&height=33&name=Screenshot%202023-01-26%20alle%2009-46-17-png.png). The recording will stop automatically after 15 seconds.

![](https://support.teethan.com/hubfs/Raggruppa%206131-png.png)

During the test execution, the electrical activity of the analyzed muscles is displayed in real-time, using bars that get filled with color proportionally to the degree of muscular activation. Each of the four muscles is identified by a characteristic color:

![](https://support.teethan.com/hubfs/Screenshot%202023-01-26%20alle%2010-39-28-png.png)

**Right Masseter**:

![](https://support.teethan.com/hs-fs/hubfs/turchese-png.png?width=27&height=27&name=turchese-png.png)

**Left Masseter**:

![](https://support.teethan.com/hs-fs/hubfs/azzurrino-png.png?width=27&height=27&name=azzurrino-png.png)

  **Right Temporalis**:

![](https://support.teethan.com/hs-fs/hubfs/rosa%20chiaro-png.png?width=27&height=27&name=rosa%20chiaro-png.png)

 **Left Temporalis**:   

![](https://support.teethan.com/hs-fs/hubfs/lilla%20chiaro-png.png?width=27&height=27&name=lilla%20chiaro-png.png)

 

 

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