Quick mount face-bow device for an articulator
US4695252A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 5, 1985 |
| Grant date | Sep 22, 1987 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 5, 2005 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
- CPC primaryA61C19/045
- WIPO fieldMedical technology
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
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 support, an adjustment structure in which bite fork support is insertable, and a bow extending from ear to ear in front of the patient's face, on which bow the ajustment structure is mountable. The bow has two arms fixedly connected to each other. Each arm has its free end formed and adapted to be placed in the patient's ear meatus. The arms have a rounded form and are made of a resilient material in order to make them resiliently outbendable at least to such an extent that the bow having its free ends at a distance from each other suitable to the distance between the openings to the patient's ear meatuses in outbent condition is movable over the sides of the patient's face in order to place the ear bow ends into the patient's ear meatuses.
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