Construction of a Digital Facebow

This paper presents a research project aiming at building a digital facebow in order to locate the upper model on the dental virtual articulator. Its main goal is to improve the design process of dental prostheses, adding this virtual step to the methodology. The main practical implication of this digital facebow is this improvement of the dental CAD/CAM system by adding the relative position of the upper model without having to use a physical facebow and physical articulator. This makes virtually produced prostheses even more accurate than the ones produced with mechanical articulators.