Articulator

Details Articulator Articulator

A - Human Necessities

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C

A61C 11/08 (2006.01) A61C 11/02 (2006.01) A61C 11/06 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 2079906

A B S T R A C T An articulator to reproduce more exactly an actual positional relation between the upper and the lower jaws of a patient and the center of opening/closing motion of said jaws at. a place outside the patient's oral cavity, in which the distance between the model of the upper jaw and a supporting shaft acting as a false joint and that between the lower jaw and said joint are variable. The articulator comprises; a setting frame 3 having a base plate 2 slidably fixed thereto; another setting frame 5 having a base plate 4 slidably fixed thereto; and a supporting member 7 for turnably connecting two setting frames 3 and 5 to each other. A position in which the models are fixed to the setting frames can be moved with respect to the supporting shaft acting as a false joint, whereby a prosthetic appliance having the center of the opening/closing motion of the upper and the lower jaws varied as desired can be fabricated. - 1 5 -

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