Bracket system

摘要

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.

主权项

1. A bracket system comprising:
a bracket combinatorial library including a plurality of brackets each interchangeably fixedly mountable to each of a plurality of teeth within a dentition group in a dental arch, each of said plurality of brackets within said bracket combinatorial library including:
a bracket base having one configuration fixedly mountable to each one of said plurality of teeth within said dentition group;a bracket body having a bracket body length disposed between a bracket body first end and a bracket body second end, said bracket body first end coupled to said bracket base, said bracket body second end extending outwardly from said bracket base; andan archwire slot extending across said bracket body second end, said archwire slot defined by an archwire slot base joined to a pair of archwire slot walls disposed a distance apart in substantially parallel opposed relation, said archwire slot angled in relation to said bracket base to define an archwire slot angle, said archwire slot configured to receive an archwire; wherein said bracket base has a configuration rotatable throughout a range of between about −50 degrees to about 50 degrees in relation to a zero degree archwire slot rotation axis prior to being fixedly mounted to one of said plurality of teeth within said dentition group; wherein said plurality of brackets within said bracket combinatorial library includes a plurality of preselected bracket body lengths discretely occurring throughout a bracket body length range of between zero millimeters to about 5 millimeters; wherein said plurality of brackets within said bracket combinatorial library includes a plurality of preselected archwire slot angles discretely occurring throughout an archwire slot angle range of between 0 degrees to about 60 degrees; 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 whereby said plurality of brackets within said bracket combinatorial library associated with said dentition group being equal to a product of a number of different preselected bracket body lengths occurring throughout said bracket body length range times a number of different preselected archwire slot angles occurring throughout said archwire slot angle range.