The Adverse Effect of Unilateral Mastication and Research Progress

To study the adverse effect of unilateral mastication and its research progress.Related research and studies were collected and reviewed.Unilateral mastication,with a large proportion of patients,is a bad oral habit.It may be caused by other diseases of stomatognathic system.Unilateral mastication often causes malocclusion,exerting a bad impact on the growth and development of stomatognathic tissue.Meanwhile,it can also cause a variety of malocclusion and temporomandibular joint diseases.Related studies concerning unilateral mastication in recent years are reviewed in this paper.