Patent ID: 9498302
Filing Date: 2016-11-22
CPC Classification: A61C

Claim Text:
1. An improved orthodontic appliance for aligning selected teeth of a wearer, comprising: a plurality of base plates adapted to be associated with respective selected teeth of the wearer; a plurality of wire guides for supporting an archwire in a curve between first and second locations on the teeth of the wearer, each of the wire guides including a slotted guide portion including a plurality of horizontal wire-receiving slots which are spaced vertically apart from each other, and a post extending between corresponding ones of the baseplates and wire guides; and, an archwire interconnecting said wire guides together in a continuous uninterrupted curve, the archwire engaging selected ones of the wire-receiving slots of each of said wire guides, and at least one of the posts having a length larger than other posts, whereby the longer post transfers a larger tooth moving force to its corresponding tooth than the other posts of the wire guides when said archwire is engaged with the wire guide having the longer post.