Diagnostics Du Jour

[RileyS]

This is one of those questions I feel like a should be ashamed to ask.
If a doc sends a case to be a full upper arch diagnostic wax that needs to be opened 3mm, how should I do that? Always in the past the docs will say to just open the bite on the articulator using the pin (panadent/stratos etc.) But this opens the anteriors 3mm and maybe the posteriors 2.5mm right?
The better planned docs seem to send a bite of the where they want it to be.

So what is the best thing to do?

 

[2thm8kr]

Raising the pin 3mm is 3 in the anterior and 1mm in the posterior.

 

[RileyS]

Raising the pin 3mm is 3 in the anterior and 1mm in the posterior.

so what to do? tell doc to send a bite?

 

[2thm8kr]

If they tell me to open the bite 3 I raise the pin 3mm. How often do you get a really accurate bite?

 

[RileyS]

i'll take it

 

[zero_zero]

For those cases I use the Acculiner...it opens the bite vertically, then I lookup the protrusion value for the given opening in relation to the Bennett angle.

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