Communicating patients' esthetic needs to the dental laboratory.
A visual aid in the form of a lined transparent plastic screen is attached to an earbow type of facebow and placed on the face. The screen can be adjusted to several horizontal tilts from the horizontal aspect in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction. The screen helps the dentist visualize horizontal and vertical facial characteristics that facilitate alignment of anterior restorations. This information can be sent to the laboratory, which can interpret the data with a smaller version of the adjustable screen.
Shannon
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Department of Removable Prosthodontics, Louisiana Medical Center, School of Dentistry, New Orleans.
Rogers
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D003142:Communication; D003725:Dental Articulators; D003748:Dental Equipment; D003766:Dental Occlusion; D003779:Denture Design / Q000295:instrumentation*; D004867:Equipment Design; D004955:Esthetics, Dental; D006801:Humans; D007574:Jaw Relation Record; D007754:Laboratories, Dental