Affiliation:
1. POLTAVA STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY, POLTAVA, UKRAINE
Abstract
The aim: The purpose of the study was to determine the indications for the use of articulator in orthodontics based on the results of the analysis of scientific and foreign literature.
Materials and methods: 23 scientific sources were selected, from more than 11 countries over the past 39 years (1981 – 2020) devoted to the use of orthodontics articula¬tors. As a result of processing 23 key international scientific papers on the use of articulators in orthodontics, we can talk about three areas of opinion regarding this problem.
Conclusions: To sum up 30.34% of authors consider the articulator to be an obligatory orthodontist’s tool for correct diagnosis. The idea of 34.78% of specialists is that the articulator cannot simulate the physiology of the TMJ – therefore, it is more a source of additional errors than an assistant in the orthodontic diagnostics. The rest of the scientists (34.78%) agree that it is advisable to use the articulator selectively – namely, if the doctor deals with “complex” orthodontic pathologies.