Evolution of Articulators- Research and Review

• Published in: Annals of the Romanian society for cell biology Vol. 25; no. 4; pp. 10665 - 10681
• Main Authors: Jairaj, Abhishek, Agroya, Pooja, Tiwari, Rahul VC, Alqahtani, Nasser M, Salkar, Manjiri, Sagar, Yekula Prem
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Arad "Vasile Goldis" Western University Arad, Romania 01.01.2021
• Subjects: Dentists; United States > US
• ISSN: 2067-3019; 2067-8282

There are two early documented facts: 1) Phillip Pfaff was the first to describe wax impression procedure and a method of creating plaster casts; and 2) Jean Baptiste Gariot was the first one to describe a method for mounting casts and conserving their relationship with plaster index ("plaster articulator"). In this review the history of articulators, beginning with the 18th century, when the evidence of the first articulator appeared to till date is defined. 1.Plaster Articulator Phillip Pfaff, dentist to the court of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, first defined his method of conserving the relationship of the casts, the plaster articulator in 1756 (Figure 1) [4]. According to House, the records of the US patent office before 1870 may be unfinished. On Hall's second articulator (March 1917), a revised version of the "Alligator," the incisal pin was intended to function within a 45-degree cup. 11.Hall's "Dental Occluding Frame": The First Patented Gothic Arch Incisal Guide Table Rupert Hall's third articulator patent, "Dental Occluding Frame" (April 1917), (Figure 8).