Patent ID: 8509381

Claim:
A patient positioning system for a panoramic dental radiation imaging system, the imaging system having a radiation source and a radiation sensor, the positioning system comprising: an upright support supporting the radiation source and radiation sensor; a patient positioning arm mounted to the upright support; a pair of motorized wands rotatably connected to the patient positioning arm and connected together so as to move at identical angles of inclination with respect to each other but in opposite directions; a pair of cuspid lasers, each projecting a laser line directed at a respective side of a patient's face near the patient's mouth and angled generally toward the patient's ears to identify where a technician is to position a patient's dentition in the proper position for the functioning of the imaging system; a movable member supporting the cuspid lasers; and a sensing device sensing the position of the movable member to thereby sense the position of the cuspid lasers.