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Shortly (10-15 min after pilocarpine administration), mastication, clonic movements of the head and vibrissae are the main behavioral manifestations.
This rejection was immediate; lizards dropped the larvae without further mastication and beak-wiped.
Salivary gland secretion is reduced; mastication to prepare food is increased, as is the time required to prepare the bolus.
However, some experience periods of inflammation and breakdown of t he oral lesions, r esulting in painful mastication and decreased food intake.
She pursues this analogy through an analysis of notions of mastication and potboiling, with all their implications of recycling, reiterating, and reformulating.
Consequently, the posterior teeth, primarily involved in mastication, were not impaired by dental filing.
However, this may be simply due to mastication attrition.
If repetitive movements involved in mastication are so important, wouldn't one expect bovids to have speech?
Xerostomia, depending on the severity and duration leads to dental caries, denture misfit, gingivitis and periodontitis, and inadequate mastication, leading t o poor bolus formation affecting swallowing.
When rejecting prey, lizards typically dropped the larva immediately after grasping it, without further mastication, and rubbed the sides of their beak against the substrate on the spot (beak-wiping).
Attempts to stimulate afferent pathways focus on encouraging affected patients to consume foods that require chewing,17,18,27 since reduced mastication will exacerbate atrophy of the salivary glands.
It is because hot bread can be eaten without mastication and stale bread tends to last a little longer.
Is not effective mastication the fons et origo of all successful business?
On the basis of observations carried out on himself he described the two-phase or temporal mastication called after him.
It also contains the submandibular and parotid salivary gland as well as the muscles of mastication (the masseter, pterygoid, and temporalis muscles).
