In this paper, we propose a novel approach for 3D surface reconstruction of the hu-
man jaw. Due to the difficulties of setting up a data acquisition system inside the mouth,
we use an intra-oral camera to capture a sequence of calibrated images. These images are
registered together to build a panoramic view of the jaw. We incorporate a shape from
shading(SFS) algorithm that benefits from camera calibration parameters to build a 3D
model from the panoramic image obtained from the previous stage. Our approach results
in a 3D surface which has more fine details compared with those resulting from other lit-
erature techniques. We will demonstrate different artificial jaws surfaces reconstruction
to show the efficiency of our system