This document discusses facebow transfer and gothic arch tracing. It defines a facebow as an instrument used to record the spatial relationship of the maxillary arch to anatomic reference points, like the mandibular transverse horizontal axis, and transfer this relationship to an articulator. The document then provides a brief history of facebow development, noting pioneers like Hayes in 1887, Snow in 1899, and Gysi in 1908. It concludes by describing the two main types of facebows: arbitrary and kinematic.
3. DEFINITION
an 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 transverse horizontal axis and one
other selected anterior reference point- GPT9
4. HISTORY
1887- Hayes
1899- G.B.Snow (improved
the design of facebow)
1908- A. Gysi first
facebow to record sagittal
condylar path and also to
relate cast to articulator
Hayes 1887
Snow 1899
5. 1927- B.B.McCullum and Stuart
Introduced a method to locate
hinge axis
1955- McCollum & Stuart
Developed pantograph