Orthodontic dental cast: The case against routine articular mounting

Blog by: S. Jack Burrow, DDS, MS

Private practice orthodontics Charlotte, NC

 Adjunct Professor of Orthodontics at UNC Chapel Hill

Research published in American Journal of Dentofacial Orthopedics

Titled: Orthodontic dental cast: The case against routine articulator mounting

Authors: Donald J. Rinshuse

                   Sanjvan Kandasamy

 The authors feel like mounting dental casts are a disservice to patients. They feel that “specific condylar positions, slides, and the minute defects of occlusion are not predictive of TMJ disorders, that articulators do not simulate condylar movements accurately and that centric relation records do not place condyles in their deemed positions, than what are we actually trying to achieve by routinely mounting dental cast on articulators.” For these reasons, Dr. Rinshuse does not recommend mounting dental cast for diagnostic reason.

S. Jack Burrow

Burrow & Case Orthodontics