Strato X User Manual - Image Works

USER'S MANUAL
General instructions for use
6.7.6 How to prepare the patient
Patient’s preparation is the key factor in order to have diagnostic images,
because of the geometrical relations between STRATO X and the natural
individual variability of patients. Following suggestions must be adapted
with the experience and the user radiological skill.
1. Ask the patient to remove all metallic objects located in the area to be
X-rayed (necklaces, earrings, glasses, hairpins, movable dental
prosthesis, etc.). Ensure that there no thick garments in the area to
be X-rayed such as coats, jackets, ties, etc.
2. Provide the patient with a protective apron or similar protection.
Ensure that the protection device does not interfere with the path of
the X-ray beam.
3. Place the patient in a stranding position at the implant support.
Using the "27+28" keys (up)
or "29+28" (down)
raise/lower the column until the implant support bite at a convenient
height.
4. Position the patient in the temple support 4 (Figure 34); ask the
patient to bite with his incisors against the reference notch of plastic
implant’s bite block, already prepared following the instructions of
paragraphs 6.7.2.1 and 6.7.2.2. The hands should rest on the front
handles.
5. Instruct the patient to close the eyes.
6. Press button "20" to switch ON the laser centring device. Two
laser beams will light up the mid-longitudinal plane line 45, the
horizontal line for the Frankfurt plane reference 46 (the plane that
identifies a line that ideally links the ear hole - the auditory meatus -
with the lower part of the orbital fossa in Figure 34 and Figure 35).
The laser beam of the Frankfurt plane must be adjusted, according to
the selected arch using knob 5 (Figure 34 and Figure 35) located on
the side of the tubehead and according to maxilla or mandible
examinations as follows:
• Maxilla: position the patient's head in such a way as to
ensure that the luminous beams fall in
correspondence of the respective anatomical
references (refer to Figure 34).
• Mandible: position the head of the patient in such a way as to
ensure that luminous longitudinal beam fall in
correspondence of the anatomical reference. Check,
using the Frankfurt laser beam, that mandibular
border at the point of interest is more horizontal than
possible (look at Figure 35).
STRATO X (120V) 96
(Rev. 1)