Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

The registration obtained through the use of a facebow and facebow fork using three points of orientation (center of rotation of both condylar joints and an arbitrary point on the face) that have been locked into place in relation to each other.  

Component attached to the facebow that transfers the maxillary arch position to the facebow, thus orienting the occlusal table of the dentition to the center of rotation of the condylar joints of the mandible to a selected anterior point on the face (e.g., the infraorbital fossa).  

A caliper‐like instrument used to record the spatial relationship of the maxillary arch to some anatomic reference point or points and then transfer this relationship to an articulator; it orients the dental cast in the same relationship to the opening axis of the articulator. Customarily, the anatomic references are the mandibular condyles transverse horizontal axis…

The building, making, or constructing of a restoration. Pertaining to imaginary events as though they were true without intent to deceive. A deliberately false statement told as if it were true.  

Characterized by an abundance of fibrinogen resulting in subsequent fibrin formation at the site of injury.