twenty years elapsed before Zeller (1939) pursued a similar application
and demonstrated the use of a Wild stereometric camera with a 40 cm
base and an A-5 autograph to compile head contour maps. But the first
detailed photogrammetric studies of human jaw orthopedics were carried
out by Rudolph Hotz (1943) at the University of Ziirich Medical
Institute and Arturo Pastorelli (1944) of Eidg. Technische Hochschule
Zürich. In spite of the rather long camera-subject distance of 1.60 mm,
they were able to plot facial contours at an interval of 2.5 mm. Also at
ETH in Zürich, Thalman-Degen (1944) wrote a doctoral dissertation on
the same subject. A decade later, the measurement of jaw swelling was
taken up by Bjórn, Lundquist, and Hjelmstrom (1954), who were
apparently unaware of the Zürich work. They also used a Wild 40 cm
base camera and Wild autograph plotting equipment, but they reduced
the camera-subject distance to 80 cm by using extra lenses.
Medical stereophotogrammetry in Sweden apparently dates from
the mid-forties (Strenger, 1946). A concentrated interest in medical, but
particularly dental and x-ray stereophotogrammetry developed within a
few years—an interest which has continued to the present day.
Numerous publications have resulted from collaboration between the
Division of Photogrammetry, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
and medical institutions such as the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm and
the State Dental School, Malmo. These reports include: Nyquist and
Tham (1951), Berghagen (1951), Tham (1953), Berghagen and
Hjelmstróm (1953), Hjelmstrom (1953), Bjorn, Lundquist, and
Hjelmstróm (1954), Forsslund (1959), Lindblom (1960), Lundberg
(1963), Wictorin (1964), Berghagen, Rônnerman, and Adolfsson (1964),
Holm and Krakau (1966), Holm, Krakau, Lindhe and Wallenius (1967),
Torlegärd (1967), Nylen and Torlegärd (1967) and Berghagen, Bergström
and Torlegärd (1968). The subject matter of these investigations has
embraced: dental prosthetic materials, intraoral radiodontology, facial
swellings, the capillary system of the gingiva, the anatomy and function
of the temporo-mandibular joint, bone resorption, the movement of
impacted teeth, and tumor volumes. Several of these reports run to
almost a hundred pages so it would be impossible to do justice to them
within the scope of this review. It is well known that the late Professor
Bertil Hallert was instrumental in developing medical photogrammetry at
Stockholm's Royal Institute of Technology and many of the above
reports resulted from theses carried out under his supervision.
Dental stereophotogrammetry has also been explored in at least
three other countries. In Japan, Haga and co-workers (Haga, 1960; Haga,
Ukiya, Koshihara, and Ota, 1964) have studied the face and jaw.
Maruyasu (1969) has also made facial contour maps to assist
reconstructive surgery. But outside of Sweden, American and English
investigators have been most active in the dental area. In the United
States, Savara (1965) described a method for quantifying the occlusal