Research Article
Development and Evaluation of a Pillow to Prevent Snoring Using the Cervical Spine Recurve Method
Table 1
Oropharynx area according to the angle of expansion.
| Location | Expansion angle (°) | The angle formed by the body of the mandible and the cervical vertebra No. 7 (°) | Oropharynx area (mm2) | Increase compared to origin (times) |
| Origin point () | 0 | 35.0 | 573 | 0 | 1 () | 5.03 | 40.0 | 765 | 1.33 | 2 () | 5.01 | 45.0 | 798 | 1.39 | 3 () | 4.95 | 50.0 | 886 | 1.54 | 4 () | 4.99 | 55.0 | 935 | 1.63 | 5 () | 5.02 | 60.0 | 987 | 1.72 |
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