Table 1.

Frequency distribution of “best model” for predicting muscle activities during molar and incisor biting in men and women. The data from all groups are combined, where MME (minimization of muscle effort) or MJL (minimization of joint load) were the objective functions used by the computer models to predict in vivo muscle activities. Model predicted data were compared with in vivo data. On average, model accuracy was 86–91% for predicting these in vivo muscle activities (11).

Gender	Biting Position	MME (%)	MJL (%)
Men	Molar	81	19
Women	Molar	72	28
Men	Incisor	72	28
Women	Incisor	53	47