Patent ID: 7601000

Claim:
A facial plane indicator for determining the position of at least one of a dental patient's dental midline and incisal plane relative to the patient's facial midline, comprising: an impression/bite tray fixedly coupled with a first end of an anteriorly-disposed rigid pedestal; a first constituent part, comprising a first side and a second side, of a rotatable joint assembly including a semi-spherical concavity disposed on the first side with at least one of a horizontally-disposed arcuate cradle and a vertically-disposed arcuate cradle disposed on the second side, the at least one arcuate cradle being defined by at least one wedge-shaped buttress; at least one of a horizontal alignment rod and a vertical alignment rod adapted for seating in the at least one of a horizontally-disposed arcuate cradle and a vertically-disposed arcuate cradle, respectively; and a second constituent part of a rotatable joint assembly including a sphere coupled with a second end of the rigid pedestal; and wherein the sphere is adapted to be coupled with said semi-spherical concavity; wherein the at least one of a horizontal alignment rod and a vertical alignment rod can be seated in the at least one of a horizontally-disposed arcuate cradle and a vertically-disposed arcuate cradle, respectively, and aligned with an orientation of a dental patient's incisal plane, facial midline and an imaginary plane perpendicular to the facial midline, and a plane parallel to the facial midline and orthogonal to the imaginary plane, by rotating the first constituent part of a rotatable joint assembly about a maximum of 3 orthogonal axes relative to the second constituent part of a rotatable joint assembly while the impression/bite tray is occlusally retained in a patient's mouth.