Patent ID: 8337202

Claim:
An apparatus for measuring a dental occlusion comprising: a position sensor configured for detecting a position and posture of a lower jaw relative to an upper jaw; an arithmetic circuit configured to compute (a) a posture relative to a translation distance in a state of occlusal contact and (b) to compute a translation locus of a specific point in an occlusal plane with respect to the upper jaw, the translation locus being relative to a translation distance in a state of occlusal contact, and such computations being derived from the position and posture of the lower jaw relative to the upper jaw detected by the position sensor and (c) to compute a rotation angle relative to the translation distance in the state of occlusal contact; and a display monitor configured for displaying the posture relative to the translation distance computed by the arithmetic circuit and for displaying the translation locus of the specific point in the occlusal plane with respect to the translation distance computed by the arithmetic circuit and for displaying the rotation angle relative to the translation distance.