1. To establish and maintain a harmonious relationship 2. To ensure that all the effects of occlusal loading be distributed 3. To best control the undesirable effects of rotational or torquing forces on the prosthesis 4. To prevent any deflective contacts of the teeth during centric or eccentric closures
1. To position the casts of dental arches on an articulator so that the casts have the same relationship as do the mandible to maxilla in the patient skull