When in this position, sufficient leverage was obtained to force greater mandibular opening, which finally, with a digital vernier caliper, was vertically measured from the incisive edge of the upper central incisor reference to the incisive edge of the lower incisor.
En esta posición se obtuvo la palanca necesaria para forzar una apertura mandibular mayor, y finalmente con un vernier digital pie de metro se midió verticalmente desde el borde incisal del incisivo central superior de referencia al borde incisal de incisivo inferior.