Bracket System
OwnerBrandon Oweninventor
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Abstract
A bracket system for orthodontic appliances including a bracket combinatorial library having a plurality of brackets each interchangeably fixedly mountable to each of a plurality of teeth within a dentition group in a dental arch, whereby the plurality of brackets can be configured to provide incremental variation in tipping force moments, in-out force moments, and torqueing force moments over the entire useful range of orthodontic mechanics, allowing an orthodontic practitioner to prescribe a combination of tipping force moments, in-out force moments, and torqueing force moments unique for each tooth in relation to the plurality of teeth of a patient.
Claims20
A bracket system comprising:
- a bracket combinatorial library including a plurality of brackets, each said bracket including:
- a bracket base;
- a bracket body having a bracket body length disposed between bracket body first and second ends, said bracket body first end coupled to said bracket base, said bracket body second end extending outwardly from said bracket base;
- and
- an archwire slot extending across said bracket body second end, said archwire slot angled in relation to said bracket base to define an archwire slot angle;
- wherein said plurality of brackets includes a plurality of preselected bracket body lengths;
- wherein said plurality of brackets includes a plurality of preselected archwire slot angles;
- wherein each one of said plurality of preselected bracket body lengths discretely combines with each one of said plurality of preselected archwire slot angles;
- and
- wherein said plurality of brackets are equal to a product of a number of different preselected bracket body lengths times a number of different preselected archwire slot angles.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.