Sirona Dental Systems GmbH
9 Operation
Operating Instructions ORTHOPHOS XG
Plus
DS/Ceph
9.3 Positioning the patient
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•
Swivel out the mirror by pressing the left recess
A
on
the touch bar.
•
Position the head of the patient in such a way that
the
occlusal plane is slightly inclined towards
anterior
.
•
Switch on the
light localizer
with key (28) on the
Easypad. It is used for correct patient positioning.
•
As long as the light localizer is on, a red light localiz-
er symbol is displayed on the touchscreen.
NOTE
i
Make sure that the light beam does not hit the patient’s
eyes (laser light).
The light localizer switches off automatically after ap-
prox. 100 seconds.
The FH horizontal light beam
should reflect between the upper edge of the external
auditory canal and the lowest point of the infraorbital rim
(
F
rankfort
H
orizontal plane
FH
).
The height of the FH horizontal light beam can be
adjusted with slider (2).
•
Fine-tune the head inclination for the FH setting:
Briefly touch
the
“up”
(30) or
“down”
(31) arrow key
on the Easypad for height adjustment.
•
Align the center of the anterior teeth or of the face
with the
central light line
(C).
•
Press key (29) on the Easypad to move the forehead
support
“towards forehead”
. On touching the pa-
tient’s forehead, the forehead support stops auto-
matically.
•
Close the temple supports by pressing key (37) on
the Easypad. On touching the patient’s temples, the
temple supports stop automatically.
•
Swivel the mirror back in by pressing the right recess
B
on the touch bar.
•
Check the FH setting and the central light line.
•
Have the patient place his or her tongue against
the palate.
Displayed reference values
The Easypad shows the reference values of the height
and forehead support settings, which are saved for fur-
ther exposures in the additional information area of the
SIDEXIS software.
NOTE
i
The forehead support and the temple supports open au-
tomatically when the exposure is complete.
T
R
CEPH
PAN
TS
LS
Filmkassette einrasten
1260
64
62kV
8mA
?
P6.1
12,1s
CEPH
PAN
PAN
TS
TS
LS
Filmkassette einlegen
Filmkassette einlegen
1260
64
68kV
8mA
?
P6
12,8s
AEC
FH
A
B
2
31
30
28
C
FH
29
37
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