A device that replicates the position and movement of the jaws whereby the artificial condyle is represented by a metallic ball that interacts with a plane to represent the articulating surface of the temporomandibular joint. These articulators can be arcon instruments, where the metallic condyle is positioned in a similar manner to a naturally occurring condyle and moves against the artificial articulating surface, or nonarcon instruments, where the metallic plane moves against the metallic ball, unlike that which occurs in a human temporomandibular joint.