Orthodontic apparatus for attachment to teeth

Details Orthodontic apparatus for attachment to teeth Orthodontic apparatus for attachment to teeth

1998-11-09

2000-01-25

Lewis, Ralph A.

Dentistry

Orthodontics

Bracket

A61C 300

Patent

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060172169

ABSTRACT:
An orthodontic bracket apparatus for attachment to a tooth, consisting of a flexible attachment pad having dimensions that are commensurate with a designated area of the tooth to which the apparatus is to be secured. The apparatus has a pair of brackets permanently mounted on adjoining areas at one side of the pad in spaced relation to each other, such brackets being maintained in their attached positions and separated by an elongate, narrow hinge portion of the pad, which portion is free from direct attachment to the brackets. The narrow hinge portion of the ductile pad enables an initial easy, relative arcuate adjusting movement of the brackets to be effected with respect to each other, thereby to obtain a closer fit of the entire pad to the surface contours of the tooth which is to have the apparatus affixed to its surface.

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