unstrained jaw relation

unstrained jaw relation
the relation between the mandible and the maxilla that exists when a state of balanced tonus exists among all the muscles involved, being achieved without undue or unnatural force and causing no distortion of the tissues of the temporomandibular joints.

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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