• The picture below shows the proper placement of the feet or the wheelchair respect to the base for devices installed with
the accessory “Self-standing base”.
In any case, the patient may also stand in natural and more comfortable position if he/she cannot hold the above described
position (e.g. elderly people). Patients in wheelchairs can also be positioned.
• Ask the patient to remove glasses, necklaces, earrings, piercing, etc. before positioning him/her and carry out the scan
• Ask the patient to bite the bite block (or place chin on the chin rest for edentulous patients).
• Turn on positioning LASERs.
• Close temple rest on the patient forehead and, gently move patients head to the correct position with his mid-sagittal plane
corresponding to the mid-sagittal LASER.
• Move slightly up or down the equipment until Frankfort laser is centered on Frankfort plane of the patient. This laser is
composed by ve lines. Refer to one of these lines to position the patient. Be sure that this line (and consequently patient’s
Frankfurt plane) is horizontal and parallel to the oor.
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