In order to use the Dinar articulator to 

diagnose conductor paths of movement and 

to fabricate accusal restorations.

The operator must be familiar with the proper hand 

grasps for manipulating the articulator 

and have knowledge of the articulator conductor 

controls and how they can be adjusted.

This scene demonstrates the proper method for 

disassembly and assembly of the 

bows of the articulator to 

disassemble,

lift the upper bow straight 

up to reassemble seat,

the far con dial in its Fassa and 

rotate the lower bow to seat the near con dial in its 

fossa 

equivalent movements can also be accomplished when the 

articulator is resting on a surface.

The two bows of the instrument lock together 

when the articulator is rotated,

open,

the centric latch is operated with the thumb and index 

finger of the left hand.

The left thumb is also used to apply necessary 

pressures to the back of the upper bow.

In effecting excursive movements 

to use an ACON articulator correctly.

The operator must learn the hand grasps which are used 

to apply pressure to the top back of the upper bow 

to ensure that the orbiting and rotating con 

dials maintain contact with their guiding 

fossil walls.

A right handed operator curls the fingers of the left 

hand under the mandibular crossbar 

and guides the back of the upper bow with the left 

thumb during lateral excursive movements.

Using the underhand push full grasp.

This same left hand position is used in the 

underhand protrusive push grasp.

The operator must also master the one hand 

grasps.

So his other hand can be free to adjust the 

articulator to pan graphic records.

Therefore,

the hand grasps most frequently used in the 

laboratory are the overhand push 

the overhand pull 

and the overhand protrusive.

The dinar articulator has fully adjustable 

conductor controls by 

loosening the protrusive conductor path adjustment,

lock screw,

the angle of the protrusive condo path can be 

changed.

The inclination of the protrusive conductor path 

from the horizontal reference plane is calibrated on a 

scale in increments of five 

degrees.

The immediate side shift adjustment allows the 

medial fossil wall to be relocated more immediately 

to provide for a greater straight lateral bodily 

side shift of the mandible.

Before the orbiting con dial advances.

The immediate side shift adjustment has a vernier 

scale calibrated in increments of 

2/10 of a millimeter.

The progressive side shift adjustment is indicated on a 

scale calibrated in increments of five 

degrees.

It allows the angle of a medial fossil wall to be 

changed in relation to the sagittal 

plane 

by setting the left fossa controls to allow 

for a one millimeter immediate side shift 

and a 20 degree progressive side shift 

and observing the articulator movements from the back of the 

articulator.

We can note that in the right lateral mandibular 

movement,

the right rotating con dial and mandible move 

immediately to the right as the mandible leaves 

centric relation and then it 

moves progressively more to the right.

As the left orbiting con dial advances,

the timing of the bodily side shift of the articulator 

is dictated by the immediate and progressive side shift.

Adjustments of the medial fossil wall on the 

orbiting side.

When the left medial fossil wall is adjusted to allow 

the con dial to move downward forward and 

inward.

And in an immediate and progressive side shift,

the orbiting con di is guided by its superior and 

medial fossil walls.

As the mandible moves bodily to the patient's right.

In this excursive movement,

the right rotating con di moves outward,

guided by its superior and rear fossil 

walls.

These guiding surfaces which govern the outward 

movement of the rotating condi can also be adjusted 

on the articulator to simulate the patient's 

condi paths of movement.

The rear wall adjustment enables the inclination of the rear 

wall to be adjusted forward or backward.

The rear wall adjustment scale is marked in 

increments of five degrees.

It is marked F and B to 

indicate a forward or backward setting.

The top wall adjustment enables the inclination of the 

faucet to be adjusted media laterally so that 

it will guide the rotating con dial either 

out and down or out and 

up in a lateral excursive movement.

The top wall adjustment scale is on the posterior 

aspect of the Fassa and is calibrated 

in increments of five degrees.

It is marked D and U to indicate 

either out and down or out and 

up 

in order to become proficient in handling,

the dinar articulator rehearse the different 

hand grasps used to manipulate the 

articulator and practice the setting of the 

various Congar adjustments.