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The Functional Interdependence of Wind Instrumentalists’ Embouchure and Their Craniofacial Features
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The criteria of performing a correct embouchure can differ according
to particular craniofacial features. Different teaching techniques can also
lead to specific patterns of a musician embouchure, where playing in a relaxed
position is one of the major indications. In order to understand if there is a
“perfect embouchure”, several techniques were used on the analysis of the embouchure
of three different wind instrumentalists. Force sensing resistors were
applied to the mouthpiece of a clarinet, infrared thermography was performed to
a brass player, while a bassoon player underwent two lateral cephalograms. The
examinations techniques were chosen to take advantage of the possible information
that could be taken from each musician, on addition to the evidence of
the intra-oral exam. The force analysis showed that the clarinetist had an asymmetrical
force distribution among the two central incisors. The infrared thermography
showed that the tuba player had thermal asymmetry at the region correspondent
to the masseters muscles possibly related to the teeth position. The
lateral cephalograms showed a 10° posterior rotation of the mandible during the
embouchure of the bassoon player. Therefore, understanding the anatomical
limitations of the orofacial region, which may lead to an asymmetrical embouchure,
is fundamental to analyze and treat a wind instrumentalist within a dental
appointment.
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Embouchure Infrared thermography lateral teleradiography force sensing resistor wind instrumentalists