Virtual Articulator & Facebow. Digitalization in Prosthodontics

      Аннотация: Advances in dental technologies triggered a paradigm shift in modern dentistry – the transition so called VIRTUAL DENTISTRY. With the invention of better technology and its subsequent use in medical and dental fields, we have come a long way ahead. In this book, we aim to incorporate the history of articulators, different types of articulators and facebow, working and need of the virtual articulators and the transformation from the mechanical to virtual articulators, how dentist are now using virtual articulator than mechanical. It also highlights about the advantages and disadvantages of virtual articulator.Not just with formulation of virtual articulators & facebow, dentistry has also been benefited by extending its arms, grabbing technologies from engineering world as well. With the assimilation of ideas from the artificial intelligence and CAD-CAM technology, dentistry has flourished multiple folds.

Ключевые слова: Virtual Reality, CAD, CAM, Haptic, Visualization, Articulator, scanning, Facebow