Patent ID: 9004915
Filing Date: 2015-04-14
Classification: A61C

Abstract:
1. A dental appliance for use with a tooth that is not fully erupted, comprising: a shell having a number of tooth apertures configured to receive and reposition a number of teeth of only one of an upper jaw or a lower jaw, wherein the number of tooth apertures each include a tooth contact surface shaped to mate with a portion of a coronal surface of a respective one of the number of teeth; and a tab directly connected to one of the number of tooth apertures and configured to extend in a distal direction along only one of a lingual, palatal, or facial side surface of a molar tooth of the one of the upper jaw or the lower jaw that has not fully erupted when the molar tooth that has not fully erupted is fully erupted, wherein the tab includes a tooth contact surface shaped to mate with only a portion of the side surface of the molar tooth that has not fully erupted extending between a patient's gingiva and a coronal surface of the molar tooth that has not fully erupted, wherein the tab defines a distal terminal end of the dental appliance, and wherein the dental appliance is configured to extend along only one of the lingual, palatal, or facial side surface of the molar tooth that has not fully erupted.