The invention relates to a method for virtually modeling a dental arch (10), wherein a plurality of overlapping images of the dental arch (10) and of a reference body (30) is captured from different angles of view and a virtual, three-dimensional dental arch model is computed from the captured images.The invention is characterized in that a partial impression (32) of the dental arch (10) on an impression plate (22) of known dimensions is used as the reference body (30), which impression plate is provided with a pattern.
