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US 4,047,303 AGranted
Guide for setting up artificial teeth
OwnerHenry Ziofsky, Brett Jason Sinclairinventors
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A set of guides are provided for setting up upper and lower artificial teeth on models. Each guide is a strip of flexible, non-elastic material. A center line is formed on each guide with a millimeter scale extending laterally therefrom on each side. The range or average width of the first anterior tooth is marked on each side of the center line, the range of the widths of the three anterior teeth on each side is marked on the guide, and the range of the widths of the four posterior teeth on each side is marked on the guide. An additional thickness is preferably formed at the top center of each strip, the additional thickness having two integral lobes intersecting at a downward facing angle at the center line to rest on the phrenum of a model. Generally longitudinal height lines parallel to each other are inscribed along the upper edge of each strip, and each guide strip has means provided to have it circle a model.
A dental guide for setting up teeth on a model, said guide comprising, in combination, a guide strip of transparent material having an upper edge, a lower edge, and being of flexible, non-elastic material, a vertical center line on said strip, parallel height lines along the upper edge of said strip, first markings on said strip on each side of said center line indicating at least the average width of first anterior teeth, second markings on said strip on each side of said center line indicating the range of the width of the three anterior teeth on each side, measuring scales on said strip extending from said center line toward each end of said guide strip along the lower edge of said strip, indicating means on said strip having a downward facing angle to be placed adjacent to the phrenum of a model, and means joining the ends of said guide strip to fix said guide strip about a model.
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