& Mounting of Maxillary Cast

Face-Bow Transfer

Armamentarium
Toggle & Shaft Hardware

Face-Bow

Plaster Bowl for Hot Water

Nasion Relator

Face-Bow (Bite) Fork

BardParker or Lab Knife One sheet Pink Base-Pate Wax

Detailed Inventory of Facebow Device

Facebow Apparatus

Lower Frame

Support Bar

Jack Screw

Adapting Wax to Bite-Fork

1. Identify the top of the bite-fork 2. Place two thicknesses of wax on the top 3. Mould to form the wax in a horseshoe as illustrated

Use Bunsen Burner to Heat the Baseplate Wax

Warm the Wax in Hot Water

Prior to this step, try the horseshoe on the the maxillary cast to make sure all of the occlusal surfaces of the maxillary teeth including the buccal cusps will be imprinted.
Make sure the wax extends beyond the last molar in the arch

Insert & Align Bite Fork

1. Align the bite fork with the mid-line of the maxilla 2. Hold bite fork in place firmly as wax cools

Chill & Trim the Excess Wax

Assembling Hardware to Face-Bow

Use of Cotton Rolls

Patient can assist in holding bite fork in place but must bite on cotton rolls

Initial Placement of Face-Bow

1. After bite fork is repositioned 2. Gently guide the ear piece into the external auditory meatus 3. Patient applies firmer pressure and holds in place while pulling forward at the same time

Initial Placement of Face-Bow

4. Note toggle & shaft hardware are already attached to the face-bow at this stage

Nose Piece
1. Center the plastic nose piece on the patients nasion. 2. Tighten thumb screw on the nasion-relator assembly 3. This secures the vertical relationship in the sagittal plane

Attaching Hardware
Have patient look at you. Make sure face bow is parallel to an imaginary line going between the pupils.
Loosely guide the vertical bar & horizontal cross bar to the bite fork shaft

Attaching Hardware
1. Make sure the horiz. cross bar is above the bite fork shaft

Attaching Hardware
2. Tighten the T-screw on the vertical bar 3. Tighten the horizontal frontal T-screw as well

>Removing the Face-Bow<

Loosen the thumb screw on the nasion relator & remove it from the face-bow

Removing the Face-Bow

1. Loosen thumb screws on facebow & have patient gently remove the ear pieces
2. The bite fork can then be removed from the mouth

Disinfecting the Wax Record and Bite Fork

Remove the Locking Screw

Add the Support Bar

Support Bar

Mounting the Lower Frame

1. Remove the upper member of the articulator 2. Remove the lower mounting plate from your articulator

3. Assemble the Lower Frame as illustrated

Mounting the Lower Frame

4. Insert the vertical rod into the lower frame all the way down so it contacts the base 5. Tighten the clamp screw

to the upper member of the articulator

Add a new Mounting Plate

Return Upper Member

to the articulator

1. Remove incisal pin 2. Rest upper member on support bar as illustrated

Make sure Centric Latch

is engaged & locked

Attach & Extend T-Bar Bite Fork Support to Lower Assembly

Jack Screw

Place Maxillary Cast

into imprints of wax

Secure maxillary cast to bite fork by melting some of the wax to the cast in selected areas

Ready for Plaster Mounting

You are now ready to affix the maxillary cast to the upper member of the articulator with mounting stone

QA Form

Finished Maxillary Mounting

Replace Incisal Pin

Horizontal Black Line

 Have Mandibular cast ready to mount Have a mounting plate available for the mandibular member of your articulator

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