ABSTRACT
There are excellent textbooks on occlusion, and the reader who has studied these will be forgiven for skimming this chapter. For those who are not yet conversant with the principles of occlusion, this short explanation together with the practical techniques for recording and reproducing occlusal relationships is intended as an introduction to the subject. It will be sufficient for making crowns and bridges for patients with no functional disturbances or pathological changes in the temporomandibular joint or the oro-facial musculature and no major occlusal abnormalities, i.e. most patients. For more difficult occlusal problems the reader is referred to the comprehensive texts.
