What is Occlusal Equilibration?

Occlusal equilibration is balancing up the bite to where the jaw joint is seated properly.

Start with a healthy joint, make sure that it’s seated properly, in Centric Relation. Then we want all the teeth to come together with equal pressure, and then when the jaw moves at all, just the front teeth touch.

The old saying of dots in the back, lines in the front, but the occlusal equilibration is basically making sure that the teeth hit all in the proper position.