Dentistry – Apparatus – Having means to record or indicate jaw movement or position...
Patent
1999-07-20
2000-11-28
Lucchesi, Nicholas D.
Dentistry
Apparatus
Having means to record or indicate jaw movement or position...
433 69, 433215, A61C 1904
Patent
active
061527300
ABSTRACT:
A bite registration appliance includes an upper base plate and a two-piece lower plate, one carrying a tracing stylus and the other carrying a tracing plate, for making a Gothic arch tracing in a patient having natural dentition without interfering with the patient's bite. One embodiment is arranged to fit within the arches, engaging undercut areas of the lingual sides of the arches, the lower plate being formed by two members that are movable laterally about a slot to engage extension wings against the inner sides of the mandible. In the second embodiment, both the maxillary and mandibular plates are two-piece units, each having a pair of arcuate extension arms that clamp around the lingual side of the patient's dental arches. The extension wings or arms in both embodiments fit loosely against a typical patient's archform and then custom fitted to the patient by trimming and molding a self-curing acrylic to the extension wings or arms. The plates are fixed to the lingual or labial sides of the patient's maxillary and mandibular arches and locked in place to make a tracing using locking screws or nuts, and then removed.
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