Issue 18: oral workspace dimension
Project Member Reported by thomasmu...@gmail.com, Jun 25, 2009
This issue relates to the angle of depression of the mandible and essentially the accessible 
workspace available to the dentist for maneuvering the drill and doing his/her work.
We are using a data-set of a young healthy adult (wisdom teeth developed but not erupted).
The data set is a series of CT scans whereby the teeth are occlused and the oral cavity is closed.

It is our goal to depress the mandible manually and would like to know if it possible to compute 
how wide the cavity should be, based on the dimensions of the upper and lower arches which are 
attainable from the scan.



Jun 25, 2009
Project Member #1 stephen....@kcl.ac.uk
When the mouth is fully open, the tips of the upper and lower incisor teeth will be 
separated by some 3.5cm. Does this answer your question?
Jun 25, 2009
Project Member #2 thomasmu...@gmail.com
yes i think so.
thank you.
Status: Started