FIBER REINFORCED ORTHODONTIC APPLIANCE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE

摘要

60557-4458 An orthodontic appliance has a body with an elongated archwire slot that has a certain periphery in reference planes generally perpendicular to the mesial-distal reference axis. The body is made of polymeric material and reinforcing fiber structure embedded therein said reinforcing fiber structure including a number of side-by-side stretches of one or more filaments that extend about a majority of the periphery of the archwire slot.