Patent ID: 9700383
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: A61B,A61C,G05B

Claim:
1. A dental bracket system, comprising: a bracket that includes: (i) a bonding surface for adhesion to a surface of a tooth to be corrected, the bonding surface being an outer surface of the bracket, (ii) a recess formed in the bonding surface, and (iii) a slot on an opposite side of the bracket from the bonding surface; an archwire with a cross-sectional diameter less than a width of the slot; and a platelet that includes (i) a surface for adhesion to a surface of the tooth to be corrected, and (ii) at least one registration point in the form of a protuberance or a recess in an outer surface of the platelet on an opposite side of the platelet from the surface for adhesion, wherein an entire outer periphery of the platelet fits within the recess formed in the bonding surface of the bracket.