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US 8,152,518 B2Granted
Dental positioning appliance having metallic portion
AssigneeAlign Technology, Inc.
InventorEric E. Kuo
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Abstract
Embodiments are provided for utilizing metallic portions in dental positioning appliances. One embodiment includes a removable dental positioning appliance having a shell having one or more cavities shaped to receive and reposition one or more teeth from a first orientation to a successive orientation and where at least a portion of the shell is formed from a metallic mesh material.
Claims12
A removable dental positioning appliance comprising:
- a shell having a plurality of cavities each shaped to receive and reposition one or more teeth from a first orientation to a successive orientation;
- where a first portion of the shell consists of a non-metallic material;
- where a second portion of the shell consists of a metallic mesh material;
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- where the first and the second portions of the shell are each shaped as at least one of the plurality of cavities and are each configured to contact a surface of the one or more teeth when the one or more teeth are received in the shell.
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