Patent ID: 8371847
Filing Date: 2013-02-12
Classification: A61C,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method of producing a customized orthodontic appliance ( 1 ), the orthodontic appliance comprising brackets fixed to teeth of a dental arch of a patient, each bracket being fixed to a surface of a tooth of the dental arch by a bracket bonding pad of the bracket, and an orthodontic archwire fixed to the brackets in a housing of a bracket body of each bracket, the method comprising: constructing, by a processing device, a numerical representation of each bracket from a numerical representation of the desired end-of-treatment dental arch, known as the dental arch final numerical representation, the operation of constructing the numerical representation of each bracket comprising: wherein the numerical representation of the bracket of one tooth being determined by the volume of the bracket blank minus the volumetric exclusion zones.