Planmeca ProMax 3D Mid User Manual page 39

Patient support table
Positioning
controls
Frankfort plane light
User's Manual (2D)
Note that the positioning lights will automatically switch off
after two minutes. If the lights go out before you have
positioned the patient, switch them on by touching the
thumb wheel on the underside of the patient support table
or by pressing any of the positioning controls (button or
joystick).
Thumb wheel
Midsagittal
Position the patient's head so that the midsagittal plane
plane light
coincides with the midsagittal plane light beam.
Position the patient's head so that the Frankfort plane
coincides with the Frankfort plane light beam. Adjust the
tilt of the patient's head by raising or lowering the unit with
the height adjusting buttons. The patient's back and neck
should be straight.
The Frankfort plane is a plane which joins the infra-orbital
point to the superior border of the external auditory
meatus.
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