{"id":4921,"date":"2015-11-27T12:11:37","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T11:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redesign.madsen.de\/en\/blog\/glossary\/artikulator\/"},"modified":"2020-06-03T11:58:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T09:58:00","slug":"artikulator","status":"publish","type":"encyclopedia","link":"https:\/\/www.madsen.de\/en\/lexikon\/artikulator\/","title":{"rendered":"Articulator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The articulator is a hinged rack for assembling jaw models and simulating jaw function. It&rsquo;s necessary for making dental prostheses in the orthodontic laboratory. At the height of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.madsen.de\/en\/lexikon\/gnathology\/\">Gnathology<\/a>, this was regarded as essential for functional diagnosis but this device is usually superfluous for this process. Moreover, it&rsquo;s particularly superfluous and involves additional costs when using it in orthodontics. Apart from rare exceptions, the use of articulators in orthodontics brings no added benefit compared to conventional jaw models.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8423\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8423\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8423\" src=\"https:\/\/www.madsen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/artikulator-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Artikulator mit Kiefermodellen: viel Aufwand, wenig Nutzen\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.madsen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/artikulator-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.madsen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/artikulator-470x705.jpg 470w, https:\/\/www.madsen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/artikulator-450x675.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.madsen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/artikulator.jpg 667w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8423\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Articulator with jaw models: a lot of effort, little use<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tip: Additional costs for testing jaw models in an articulator are only justified in very rare and special cases. Please meet an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.madsen.de\/en\/lexikon\/orthodontist\/\">orthodontist<\/a>, who offers diagnostics with articulators, with healthy scepticism. If you&rsquo;re in doubt, just say no. Everything will work out fine without an articulator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The articulator is a hinged rack for assembling jaw models and simulating jaw function. It\u2019s necessary for making dental prostheses in the orthodontic laboratory. At the height of Gnathology, this was regarded as essential for functional diagnosis but this device is usually superfluous for this process. Moreover, it\u2019s particularly superfluous and involves additional costs when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-4921","encyclopedia","type-encyclopedia","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madsen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia\/4921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madsen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madsen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/encyclopedia"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madsen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.madsen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia\/4921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13475,"href":"https:\/\/www.madsen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia\/4921\/revisions\/13475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madsen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}