Method for determining vertical dimension
OwnerStanley Knebelmaninventor
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Abstract
Vertical dimension of occlusion, i.e. the vertical dimension of the face with the posterior teeth fitting tightly together, is readily determined by a method comprising first measuring the distance between the external auditory meatus and the lateral corner of the occular orbit, making an adjustment in the first measurement to arrive at the factored distance and then positioning the mandible so that the distance between the nasal spine and the anterior part of the undersurface of the mandible corresponds to the factored distance. Gauging devices are disclosed for performing the method.
Claims6
A method for determining vertical dimension of occlusion comprising the steps of:
- providing a gauging device comprising a first probe terminating in a first tip portion affording registry of said first tip with selected anatomical parts, and a second probe adjustably mounted substantially parallel to said first probe for adjustment relative to said first probe and said second probe having a second tip portion affording registry of said second tip with selected anatomical parts;
- first registering one of said tips with the external auditory meatus, and adjusting said gauging device to register the other of said tips with the lateral corner of the ocular orbit to establish a first measurement;
- then positioning the tip of the second probe spaced relative to the tip of said first probe a factored distance based on said first measurement;
- thereafter, without changing said positioning of the tips, registering one of said tips with the nasal spine and positioning the other of said tips adjacent the anterior part of the undersurface of the mandible;
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- then positioning the mandible to engage said other tip.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.