Placement apparatus for lingual and buccal brackets
CA 1309281 C · Owner: Creekmore, Thomas D. · Inventors: Creekmore, Thomas D.
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Abstract, Apparatus for accurately placing orthodontic brackets on the lingual or labial surfaces of a model of a patient's maloccluded teeth in conjunction with an indirect bonding procedure or the like. A model support incorporates an immovable base forming a spherical surface segment which receives a complimentary spherical surface segment of a movable model platform thus providing for rotation of the platform in all planes of space about a centroid region. The maloccluded model is placed on the movable platform with a selected tooth thereof located at the central region of a sphere of which the spherical surface segments form a part. A tooth orienting template is releasably supported in …
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- Granted October 27, 1992. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended October 27, 2009.
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