The Need for Face Bows

Wilkerson, DeWitt C.

doi:10.1016/j.adaj.2016.07.005

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“…[12][13][14][15][16][17][18] , The kinematic Face bow connects the caliper ends to the exact hinge axis location. 19 bow and there is a difference in responses between undergraduate and postgraduate professionals. Pearson Chi square test: 8.065a ; df-4; p value: 0.089(>0.05), hence it is statistically not significant.…”

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Awareness about Face Bow and its Types among Dental Professionals- A Questionnaire Based Survey

2020

IJFMT

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A face bow is a caliper like instrument used to record spatial relation from maxillary arch to the anatomical points and transfer the jaw relation to an articulator. It orients the dental cast in the same relationship to the opening axis of the articulator. There are mainly two types of face bows -Kinematic and Arbitrary face bows. Arbitrary face bows inturn have many subtypes based on anterior and posterior reference point indicators and the mechanism of inter condylar distance equilibrium.The questionnaire containing questions about face bows and its types was circulated to about 100 participants through google docs -online survey.The study was approved ethically by IERB.The responses generated from the survey were converted into pie charts and recorded. The answers obtained are discussed by comparing with the previous articles.The survey study shows how much Dental professionals know about face bows and its types and implementing them in their practice.

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