Facebow to Denar Anamark Plus

In order to accomplish a work of art, I MUST have a well taken facebow. This equipment plays such a big role to the case, but not many of the clinicians realize such an importance of the facebow and preparing the facebow accurately. Among the cases that come into our laboratory, 9 out of 10 cases come with a facebow. Believe it or not, 7 out of those 9 facebows are USELESS.

The accurately taken facebow MUST allow you to place the maxillary arch where it is supposed to be in the articulator (center of the articulator where the plates position). Failing to do so will result in incorrect angle of the smile line, tilted alignment of all the teeth, the canine guidance won’t be fabricated in correct function and most importantly it will LOOK terrible in patients‘ mouth.

Above is the picture of Bad facebow and a Good facebow. Careless mistakes that I often see is the facebow transfered without the numbers appearing on the facial view (fig. 1 & 2). Other common mistakes are mispositioning (fig. 3 & 4). Also be very aware of tightening all the bolts of the facebow before shipping to avoid the facebow being collapsed and mispositioned.

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