INDIVIDUAL ARTICULATOR Russian patent published in 2005 - IPC

FIELD: medical engineering.

SUBSTANCE: device has polymer articulation heads of elliptic shape of individual articulator hinged connection. Interframe platform is T-shaped and has 3.5 mm inner diameter tubes. Fixing pins of the same diameter are fixed on zygomatic arch. Incisor platform is 35 mm as long. It is manufactured as circle sector of 100 mm large radius. It has internal groove of 22 mm large radius. The platform is fixed allowing rotation from negative angle to 90° on the pin mounted in bushing by means of a screw and arranged in the flexural center of lower frame. A rod resting on incisor platform and fixable in bushing by means of a screw is available in the flexural center of upper frame. The in the lower frame has plate provided with elliptic hole for fastening removable table or removable lens having sector of a diameter of 94 mm. The plate is arranged with mandible model incisor part place being coincident with Bonville triangle apex Two transverse rods for fixing mandible model are available on the upper frame. Members for tuning articulator operation are manufactured as two hemispheres joined by means of screws. Two tuning screws arranged at an angle of 15° to frame planes and a supporting screw resting on bearing platform are available on the upper hemispheres.

EFFECT: enhanced effectiveness in making prosthetic appliances in the cases of partial or complete adentia.

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