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Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry

Centric Relation:

• The most retruded physiological relation of the mandible to the maxillae

to and from which the individual can make lateral movements. It is a

condition which can exist at various degrees of jaw separation. It occurs

around the terminal hinge axis.

Centric Occlusion:

• The centered contact position of the lower occlusal surfaces against the

upper ones; a reference position from which all the other horizontal

positions are eccentric.

Third edition (1968)