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7544060 Dental device for registration of midline and horizontal plane  
The dental device of the present invention is used to transfer information about registration of an anterior midline between central incisors and a horizontal plane of the teeth after the teeth...
7399182 Methods and apparatus for determining horizontal and vertical plane orientation for construction of dental prostheses  
Methods and systems for establishing dental bite planes in relation to the relative vertical and horizontal planes of a patient's face and head. A U-shaped bite fork, which can be held by the...
7144251 Dental-facial measuring instrument  
A dental-facial measuring instrument provides a possibility to determine an occlusion to make a denture. An improved dental-facial measuring instrument includes the first and second strips coupled...
7128572 Method and apparatus for selecting denture teeth  
A kit which may be used for anterior tooth selection, the kit including a facial meter for measuring the width of a nose and/or the distance between the eyes, and for correlating the measurement to...
7048539 Anatomical transfer bow with leveling device  
An anatomical transfer bow is made available which consists principally of a central part, with two pivotable side arms connected via a pivot point, of the nasion support with mounting part and...
6582931 Dento-facial analyzer  
A face bow assembly including a face bow having a bite fork portion to carry an index trays to be positioned in a patient's mouth. The bow has outwardly extending wings to enable a dentist to...
6322359 Method for use in dental articulation  
A computer implemented method of creating a dental model for use in dental articulation includes providing a first set of digital data corresponding to an upper arch image of at least a portion of...
6152732 Facebow with sighting structure  
A facebow having a sight structure, co-linearly moving arms, and ear pieces shaped to provide repeatable registration of the facebow on a patient's face. The facebow is able to be sterilized as a...
6109917 System for establishing a reference plane for dental casts  
Dental apparatus which can determine a patient-specific reference plane so that the patient's teeth can be aesthetically oriented to an aesthetic axis-horizontal reference plane. The apparatus...
5971756 Method and apparatus for creating patterns for dentures  
This invention consists of a method and apparatus which establish specific central and vertical dimensions and positions for patterns for the making of dentures which will provide a natural...
5738517 Apparatus and method of fixed reference examination of dental patients  
A patient evaluation reference determining apparatus of the present invention comprises a face bow which extends generally from one of the patient's ears forwardly along the patient's temples or...
5724746 Dental recording apparatus  
A dental recording apparatus for recording the movements of the jaw joints in relation to the skull includes (A) an adjustable upper recording bow which is secured on the bridge of the nose, the...
5722828 Method of fabricating a dental BITE registration mold using a gothic arch tracing  
An apparatus and method for producing a gothic arch tracing representative of the natural range of motion of a patient's mandible. The apparatus consists of a kit including a mandibular bite rim...
5632619 Jaw articulator and face bow with bite-fork column  
A face bow for receiving and transferring a model jaw to a jaw articulator in the correct spacial orientation relative to a patient's skull and jaw hinge axis. The face bow has a curved transfer...
5350382 Surgical cutting guide  
A cutting guide is provided for use in human maxillofacial surgery. The cutting guide has a bowed body portion adapted to substantially surround the interior surface of the mandible. The body...
5176515 Dental treatment method and apparatus  
A characteristic of optimal facial harmony is a correlation of the A/P (Anterior/Posterior) position of the maxillary incisors with the forehead. When the forehead is canted about 7 degrees or...
5090901 Face bow and adjustable occlusal fork  
A bracket having a vertical column for supporting a face bow and a bite fork on the face of a patient with impressionable material on the bite fork in the mouth of the patient with the patient's...
5078600 Multifunction mandibular movement measuring device  
A mandibular movement measuring device for measuring the angular movment of the mandibular incisal edge between the mandibular closed position and the maximum mandibular open position and for...
5009594 Disposable transfer jig assembly  
An adjustable transfer jig assembly interconnecting a face bow and a bitefork is positionally fixed after locating the bitefork relative to the face bow. Clamp blocks of plastic interconnecting...
4936302 Superficial temporal artery compression clamp  
A clamp to be used during the performance of cerebrovascular thermography wherein said clamp compresses superficial temporal arteries without introducing heat artifacts is disclosed. The clamp is...
4907967 Paraocclusive dental instrument  
A paraocclusive instrument including two holding jaws laterally applied to the lower dental arch and a basic element in communication with the holding jaws in the form of a rod to transfer movement...
4892480 Face bow  
A face bow for use with an articulator. The face bow has a caliper having ends to engage the ear area of a patient to support the articulator, a naison suture engaging means to engage the nose area...
4836779 Dental face bow  
A dental face bow comprising a U-shaped spring member including two opposing uniformly acting spring biased legs and a central portion. The U-shaped spring member has a cross section with vertical...
4806100 Mandible manipulation device  
The present invention provides a mandible manipulation device that, in a preferred embodiment, consists of a frame having a pair of elongated, lengthwise members that are adjustably connected to a...
4773854 Device for the representation and correction of condylar motions  
Disclosed herein is a device for the representation of condylar movements of a patient and their correct simulation which includes models of sets of teeth to determine the required corrections to...
4695252 Quick mount face-bow device for an articulator  
A face-bow device for registration of a patient's face and for transferring the registration to an articulator, for use in making dentures or parts thereof, comprises a bite fork on a bite fork...
4681539 Dental articulator and method  
A method and apparatus for recording condylar motion and utilizing such recording in a dental articulator involves the production of three-dimensional solid recordings formed by the patient...
4673352 Device for measuring relative jaw positions and movements  
The apparatus comprises a first holder (10) fixed stationarily relative to the upper jaw to the patient's head, and a second holder (16) which is secured to the lower jaw. The second holder...
4639220 Apparatus for determining the three-dimensional position and attitude  
An apparatus for measuring the three-dimensional position and attitude of upper and lower clutches attached on patient's maxillary and mandibular teeth for computerized measurement of the...
4634377 Device for aligning artificial teeth and crowns  
A system useful for recording or providing information concerning the optimal esthetic position and angulation of the anterior teeth of a dental patient during restoration of teeth with crowns or...
4616998 Face bow and method of use in orthodontic procedures  
A novel face bow and method of its use for accurately transferring gnathological relationship data from a patient to an articulator, the face bow including radioluscent arm pieces with radiopaque...
4611991 Apparatus for fixing a plaster cast in an articulator for the production of dental prostheses  
Apparatus for fixing a plaster cast in an articulator for producing dental prostheses, including a three-point support (5) which is mainly defined by a body (8) to which two coaxial projections...
4561846 Dental pantograph  
A dental pantograph capable of measuring mandibulary movement includes right and left side housings have orthogonally located X, Y and Z scales. The housing further includes X, Y and Z scale...
4537574 Dental articulator  
A method and apparatus for performing prosthodontic work comprises a face bow formed from a plate which supports impression styli which, when removed from the patient's head, is incorporated as the...
4515154 Method and apparatus for indexing the condyle position during sagittal ramus split surgery  
The method and apparatus for positionally indexing the upper segment of the split ramus with respect to the maxilla, during a sagittal split ostotomy, to insure proper occlusal position of the...
RE31716 Dental apparatus  
Jaw movements are measured mechanically and electrically. The information is used to adjust guide boxes on a dental articulator which cooperate with fixed styluses to simulate jaw movements. The...
4466794 Dental simulator  
The simulator includes an upper and lower facebow for mounting on a patient to record and later reproduce the three dimensional movements of the patient's mandible. The upper frame has two...
RE31615 Jaw movement simulation  
An upper frame including parallel side arms is supported on the patient's ears and attached to a transverse rod supported on the bridge of the patient's nose. A record plate depends from each side...
4431413 Combination appliance for holding and fixing a transfer bow  
The present invention relates to a combination appliance, also known as a mounting aid, for holding and fixing a transfer bow, for pivotably holding and setting the desired angle of inclination of...
4424035 Self-centering dental face-bow  
A self-centering dental face-bow comprising an elongate cross-bar which is adapted to be disposed across the front of a dental patient's face in spaced relationship thereto, a pair of arms...
4411622 Jaw hinge-axis locator  
A jaw hinge-axis locating device for securing a dental face-bow of the type having hinge pointers to the face of a dental patient with the hinge pointers of the face-bow in axial alignment with the...
4368041 Dental simulator and method for recording jaw movements  
The simulator includes a maxillary and mandibular facebow, a maxillary and mandibular support and an incisal pin. Receptacles are mounted on the ends of the side arms of the maxillary facebow, and...
4354836 Articulator devices for reproducing the movements of the mandible  
The invention relates to articulator devices for reproducing the movements of the mandible. The device according to the invention comprises means for sampling the movements of the mandible,...
4352663 Method and apparatus for setting a dental articulator  
A protractor-comparator type tool is used to determine characteristics of a recorded path of a patient's jaw movement for purposes of setting a dental articulator.
4345898 Face bow  
The invention relates to a face bow serving to transfer jaw models to an articulator in correct relationship to the skull. It consists essentially of two L-shaped side arms which are connected by...
4306861 System for recording mandibular motion  
An apparatus (10) for recording motion of the mandible relative to the maxilla in reconstructive dentistry comprises a lateral bar (16) attachable to the upper jaw. A pair of stylii (22) are...
4261696 Dental facebow  
A facebow for use in measuring the positions of the temporomandibular joints of a patient relative to the maxillary teeth of the patient so that such positions may be transferred to an articulator...
4252524 Face bow frame  
A face bow frame to facilitate the occlusal restorations which can readily be adapted to the patient about either the arbitrary axis of rotation of the condyle or about the exact hinge axis of the...
4234307 Occlusal plane orientation guide  
An orientation guide for adjustment of the occlusal plane of a set of dentures relative to the cranial anatomy of a patient includes a flat plate having a curved bite piece and a pair of laterally...
4171570 Method and apparatus for evaluating anomalies of facial bilateral symmetry  
A method and apparatus for preoperative, horizontal plane evaluation of cases with anomalies of facial bilateral symmetry are disclosed. The required rotational and translational movements in the...
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