Patent ID: 9510920
Filing Date: 2016-12-06
CPC Classification: A61C,B33Y,Y10T

Claim Text:
1. A method for producing at least one patient-specific modular bracket having a pad and a bracket body, comprising the steps of: providing a plurality of raw bracket bodies having a spacer section extending away from a slot and ending in a flat surface distal from the slot, customizing the raw bracket bodies to produce a plurality of different bracket bodies, wherein the step of customizing the raw bracket bodies to produce the plurality of different bracket bodies includes establishing a first parameter for cutting through the spacer section from the slot of the raw bracket body to set a height of the bracket body, establishing a second parameter for cutting through the spacer section at an angle to a mesio-distal axis of the raw bracket body to set a torque value of the bracket body, establishing a third parameter for cutting through the spacer section at an angle to an occlusal-gingival axis to set a rotation value of the bracket body, and cutting through the spacer section according to the first, second and third parameters to form a flat cut surface on the bracket bodies, providing at least one bracket body library formed of said bracket bodies, generating a patient-specific set-up, in particular made of plaster, of the teeth to be treated of an upper jaw and/or of a lower jaw of a patient, selecting a raw pad from a raw pad library for each of the patient's teeth to be treated, forming a patient-specific glued surface on each raw pad for producing the pad, selecting a bracket body from the bracket body library for each pad for respective connecting with the pad, and connecting one pad each to the flat cut surface of the corresponding bracket body thereby producing a patient-specific bracket for each of the patient's teeth to be treated.