Characteristics of Grouped Discharge Waveforms Observed in Long-term Masseter Muscle Electromyographic Recording: A

Naoto Maeda1, Naoki Kodama1, Yosuke Manda1

  • 1Department of Occlusal and Oral Functional Rehabilitation, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama 700-8558, Japan.

Acta Medica Okayama
|August 24, 2019
PubMed

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