INTRAORAL MEASURING INSTRUMENT

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an intraoral measuring instrument which carries out intraoral measurement with improved accuracy. SOLUTION: The intraoral measuring instrument comprises a body case 1 operated by gripping, a prism 5 arranged on the anterior side of the body case 1, and a projection part 11 and an imaging part 12 arranged on the posterior side of the prism 5 within the body case 1. The prism 5 has a light measuring part 6 on the bottom face of the anterior part and a reflection face 7 inclining from the upper part to the lower part and arranged above the light measuring part 6. A bending face 8 is formed on the rear part of the prism 5. A part of the bending face 8 is used as a projection face 9 and the other part is used as an imaging face 10. The projection part 11 faces the projection face 9 and the imaging part 12 faces the imaging face 10. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT