Aldo Macchi,Jeffrey Allen Smith,Nam Trinh,Dennis Dupray,Christophe Gualano,Leon W. Laub
申请号：
US13762994
公开号：
US08979528B2
申请日:
2013.02.08
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2015
代理人:
摘要：
An orthodontic bracket is disclosed having three archwire retention channels in the mesial-distal directions, a central channel and two side channels. The two side channels each include a pair of spaced apart inverted archwire retaining regions having a recess that opens generally towards the bracket base. Each such recess is for grasping or holding an archwire therein. Other aspects are directed to a self ligating orthodontic bracket system that includes a rotatable member for securing an archwire within a slot of a bracket； embodiments that include an orthodontic appliance and method of producing and using the same, and preferably employed in a lingual orthodontic system, that includes friction reducing features between an interior of an archwire slot portion of the appliance and an archwire placed within the archwire slot.
