Abstract:
This invention discloses an orthodontics adjusting bracket changing the traditional orthodontics logical thinking. The orthodontics adjusting bracket can reduce the chance for removing teeth, decrease the sequelae of removing wisdom teeth, avoid temporomandibular joint-pain-dysfunction syndrome and cheeks depressed, extend lifetime of dental formula, and lower down the social security expenditure. This invention can fundamentally improve dental engagement to avoid the secondary injury of traditional orthodontics treatment and improve the loading of social security expenditure. According to this invention, the difficult mission of correcting wisdom teeth in traditional orthodontics treatment will become easily and smoothly.

Description:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
       [0001]    1. Field of the Invention 
         [0002]    The present invention is generally related to an auxiliary device for orthodontics, and more particularly to wisdom teeth adjusting bracket and the method for orthodontics adjusting thereof. 
         [0003]    2. Description of the Prior Art 
         [0004]    Recently, orthodontics becomes a popular issue. In the past 125 years, wisdom teeth are usually thought as useless and as an unstable reason to the result of orthodontics being able to bring un-convenient and bother the patients and the doctors. In many industrialized countries, including the specialist training and the logical thinking of clinical treatment, it is hard to avoid the consideration for speedy accomplishing orthodontics treatment. Therefore, the considered orthodontics program is usually inclined to perform surgery for removing patient&#39;s wisdom teeth. The above-mentioned orthodontics program can easily and speedy correct the teeth arrangement of the patients. But, the above-mentioned “speedy” orthodontics program also brings lots of sequelae. The majorly known sequelae are shown as the following. 
         [0005]    1. After removing a patient&#39;s wisdom teeth, the bite pivots of the patient will be moved forward, and temporomandibular joint-pain-dysfunction syndrome will be caused therefrom. 
         [0006]    2. If removed patient&#39;s wisdom teeth, the periodontal damage at the distal side of the patient&#39;s secondary molar may not be repaired by specific differentiation, no matter caused by innate or acquired reasons. 
         [0007]    3. If the pre-molars and wisdom teeth are removed before adult, there will be some defects formed in the teeth conformation. When the dental formula of the patient grown up, the patient&#39;s cheeks will become depressed and the nasolabial folds will come out earlier than usual. 
         [0008]    4. Theoretically, wisdom teeth are most young teeth with longest lifetime. If removing wisdom teeth before orthodontics treatment, the lifetime of all teeth will be decreased. 
         [0009]    5. The loading of the patient&#39;s insurance and the social security will be substantially increased by the therapy cost of the orthodontics sequelae. If the orthodontics sequelae can be efficiently controlled, the expenditure of social security and personal insurance will be decreased. 
         [0010]    Besides, for orthodontics operator, to correct tipped teeth is one of the most popular and most difficult clinical works. In the traditional orthodontics treatment, it is hard to place bracket and correcting wire onto the target wisdom teeth. For a wisdom tooth with tipping angle about 30 to 90 degrees, to perform an adjusting program to correct the wisdom tooth during the orthodontics treatment is almost impossible. Therefore, it seems very logically to remove the wisdom teeth through a surgery operation in the traditional orthodontics treatment. 
         [0011]    Excluding the mentioned sequelae, removing wisdom teeth by surgery operation will increase the uncomfortable-ness and infection chance of the patients. Moreover, for some patients unsuited for performing surgery, such as patients with blood coagulation disease or weak immunity, it would be a hard decision to perform the surgery for removing the wisdom teeth during orthodontics treatment. 
         [0012]    In view of the above matters, developing a novel wisdom-teeth adjusting bracket and the method for orthodontics adjusting thereof having the advantage of efficiently decreasing the sequelae come with the orthodontics treatment is still an important task for the industry. 
       SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
       [0013]    In light of the above background, in order to fulfill the requirements of the industry, the present invention provides a novel wisdom teeth adjusting bracket and the method for orthodontics adjusting thereof having the advantage of easily operating and occupying few space. More preferably, the wisdom teeth adjusting bracket and the method for orthodontics adjusting thereof of this invention can efficiently correct wisdom teeth without any operation for removing the wisdom teeth/tooth, so that the mentioned wisdom teeth adjusting bracket and the method for orthodontics adjusting thereof can be more popular for orthodontics patients with more safety and efficiently. 
         [0014]    One objective of the present invention is to provide a wisdom teeth adjusting bracket and the method for orthodontics adjusting thereof to perfectly correct wisdom teeth through physical stress during orthodontics treatment. Preferably, according to this specification, the orthodontics treatment can be performed without surgery operation and approach the purpose of maintaining all teeth without removing wisdom teeth. 
         [0015]    Another objective of the present invention is to provide a wisdom teeth adjusting bracket and the method for orthodontics adjusting thereof to correct wisdom teeth with orthodontics correcting tubes of the wisdom teeth adjusting bracket with different angles. Preferably, according to this specification, the wisdom teeth do not need to be removed by surgery operation, and the orthodontics treatment can be modulated by each of the tipping angle of the target wisdom teeth. 
         [0016]    Accordingly, the present invention discloses a wisdom teeth adjusting bracket and the method for orthodontics adjusting thereof. In one preferred example of this specification, the mentioned wisdom teeth adjusting bracket comprises a tooth surface attachment base plate, and at least two orthodontics correcting tubes positioned at the same side of the tooth surface attachment base plate. There is an angle between the orthodontics correcting tubes. 
         [0017]    In another preferred example of this invention, wisdom teeth adjusting bracket comprises a tooth surface attachment base plate, and a bracket body positioned on the tooth surface attachment base plate. The bracket body comprises at least two orthodontics correcting tubes. Each of the orthodontics correcting tubes is passed through the bracket body. There is an angle between every two of the orthodontics correcting tubes. 
         [0018]    In another preferred example of this invention, the mentioned method for orthodontics adjusting comprises providing a wisdom teeth adjusting bracket, attaching the wisdom teeth adjusting bracket onto the surface of a target wisdom tooth, passing a correcting wire through a first orthodontics correcting tube of the wisdom teeth adjusting bracket, and pulling out the correcting wire and passing the correcting wire through a second orthodontics correcting tube of the wisdom teeth adjusting bracket. 
     
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
         [0019]    The present disclosure can be described by the embodiments given below. It is understood, however, that the embodiments below are not necessarily limitations to the present disclosure, but are used to a typical implementation of the invention. 
           [0020]      FIG. 1  shows a wisdom teeth adjusting bracket of this invention; 
           [0021]      FIG. 2A  and  FIG. 2B  shows another wisdom teeth adjusting bracket of this invention; 
           [0022]      FIG. 3  shows a flowchart of the method for 
           [0023]      FIG. 4A  to  FIG. 4C  shows an orthodontics treatment of this invention. 
       
    
    
     DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS 
       [0024]    What probed into the invention is a wisdom teeth adjusting bracket and the method for orthodontics adjusting thereof. Detailed descriptions of the structure and elements will be provided in the following in order to make the invention thoroughly understood. Obviously, the application of the invention is not confined to specific details familiar to those who are skilled in the art. On the other hand, the common structures and elements that are known to everyone are not described in details to avoid unnecessary limits of the invention. Some preferred embodiments of the present invention will now be described in greater details in the following. However, it should be recognized that the present invention can be practiced in a wide range of other embodiments besides those explicitly described, that is, this invention can also be applied extensively to other embodiments, and the scope of the present invention is expressly not limited except as specified in the accompanying claims. 
         [0025]    One preferred embodiment according to this specification discloses a wisdom teeth adjusting bracket.  FIG. 1  shows a wisdom teeth adjusting bracket of this embodiment. Referred to  FIG. 1 , the mentioned wisdom teeth adjusting bracket  100  comprises a tooth surface attachment base plate  120 , and at least two orthodontics correcting tubes  140 . The orthodontics correcting tubes are positioned at the same side of the tooth surface attachment base plate  120 . In one preferred example of this embodiment, the orthodontics correcting tubes  140  are fixed onto the tooth surface attachment base plate  120  through any well-known method, such as welding. In another preferred example of this embodiment, the orthodontics correcting tubes  140  and the tooth surface attachment base plate  120  are integrally formed. 
         [0026]    According to this embodiment, the tooth surface attachment base plate  120  comprises a plurality of openings  122 . In one preferred example, the openings  122  can be irregularly distributed over the tooth surface attachment base plate  120 . In another example, the openings  122  can be distributed around the edge of the tooth surface attachment base plate  120 . Each of the openings  122  is passed through the tooth surface attachment base plate  120 . When the tooth surface attachment base plate  120  is attached onto the surface of the target wisdom tooth by gluing, part of the glue will spill over the openings  122  so that the tooth surface attachment base plate  120  will be tightly attached onto the surface of the target wisdom tooth. 
         [0027]    According to this embodiment, there is an angle between every two of the orthodontics correcting tubes  140 . The mentioned angle is about 30 to 75 degrees. In one preferred example of this embodiment, the mentioned angle is about 45 degrees. In another preferred example, the mentioned angle is about 60 degrees. 
         [0028]    In one preferred example of this embodiment, the method for orthodontics adjusting through employing the wisdom teeth adjusting bracket  100  can be performed as the following. Firstly, the wisdom teeth adjusting bracket  100  is attached onto the surface of the target wisdom tooth at a proper position. A correcting wire is passed across a first orthodontics correcting tube  142  of the orthodontics correcting tubes  140  of the wisdom teeth adjusting bracket  100 , and the both ends of the correcting wire are fixed. Through the physical stress of the correcting wire, the target wisdom tooth will be corrected to a first position. Then, the corrected wire is pulled out and passed through a second orthodontics correcting tube  144  of the orthodontics correcting tubes  140 . Through the physical stress of the correcting wire, the target wisdom tooth will be corrected from the first position to a second position. In one preferred example, if the second orthodontics correcting tube still cannot completely correct the target wisdom tooth, the above steps can be repeat as passing the correcting wire through the first orthodontics correcting tube or a third orthodontics correcting tube (not shown in the figure) for further correcting the target wisdom tooth. 
         [0029]    Another preferred embodiment of this specification discloses a wisdom teeth adjusting bracket.  FIG. 2A  and  FIG. 2B  show a wisdom teeth adjusting bracket of this embodiment. Referred to  FIG. 2A  and  FIG. 2B , the wisdom teeth adjusting bracket  200  comprises a tooth surface attachment base plate  220 , and a bracket body  240 . The bracket body  240  is positioned on the tooth surface attachment base plate  220 . According to this embodiment, the bracket body  240  is extended from the tooth surface attachment base plate  220 . In one preferred example, the bracket body  240  is combined with the tooth surface attachment base plate  220  through any technology known by the one skilled in the art, such as welding. In another example, the bracket body  240  and the tooth surface attachment base plate  220  are integrally formed. 
         [0030]    The tooth surface attachment base plate  220  comprises a plurality of openings  222 . In one preferred example, the openings  222  can be irregularly distributed over the tooth surface attachment base plate  220 . In another example, the openings  222  can be distributed around the edge of the tooth surface attachment base plate  220 . The wisdom teeth adjusting bracket  200  can be attached onto a surface of a target wisdom tooth by gluing. When attaching the wisdom teeth adjusting bracket  200  onto a surface of a target wisdom tooth by gluing, some glue will spill over the openings  222  from the surface of the target wisdom tooth, so that the wisdom teeth adjusting bracket  200  will be tightly attached onto the surface of the target wisdom tooth. 
         [0031]    The bracket body  240  comprises at least two orthodontics correcting tubes, shown as  242  and  244  in  FIG. 2A  and  FIG. 2B . The orthodontics correcting tubes are individually passed through the bracket body  240 . There is an angle between the orthodontics correcting tubes. The range of the mentioned angle is about 30 to 75 degrees. In one preferred example of this embodiment, the mentioned angle is about 45 degrees. In another preferred example, the mentioned angle is about 60 degrees. 
         [0032]    In one preferred example of this embodiment, the bracket body  240  further comprises at least two trench  246  and  246 ′. The trenches  246  and  246 ′ are positioned on the bracket body  240 , and the direction of each trench is independently corresponding to one of the orthodontics correcting tubes. Because the size of the wisdom teeth adjusting bracket  200  is very tiny, the mentioned trenches are helpful on identifying the location and direction of the orthodontics correcting tubes during fastening the wisdom teeth adjusting bracket  200  or passing a correcting wire through one of the orthodontics correcting tubes. 
         [0033]    Still another preferred embodiment of this specification discloses a method for orthodontics adjusting with wisdom teeth adjusting bracket.  FIG. 3  shows a flowchart of the mentioned method of this embodiment. Referred to  FIG. 3 , the method for orthodontics adjusting with wisdom teeth adjusting bracket comprises the step  320  of attaching a wisdom teeth adjusting bracket onto a surface of a target wisdom tooth, the step  340  of passing a correcting wire through a first orthodontics correcting tube of the wisdom teeth adjusting bracket, and the step  360  of passing the correcting wire through a second orthodontics correcting tube of the wisdom teeth adjusting bracket. 
         [0034]    In the step  320 , the wisdom teeth adjusting bracket can be attached onto the outside surface of the target wisdom tooth by gluing. In one preferred example of this embodiment, the mentioned wisdom teeth adjusting bracket is as the wisdom teeth adjusting bracket shown in  FIG. 1 . In another preferred example, the mentioned wisdom teeth adjusting bracket is as the wisdom teeth adjusting bracket shown in  FIGS. 2A and 2B . When attaching the wisdom teeth adjusting bracket onto the surface of the target wisdom tooth, the position of the wisdom teeth adjusting bracket and the angle between the first orthodontics correcting tube of the wisdom teeth adjusting bracket and the gums can be decided upon how crooked the target wisdom tooth is. 
         [0035]    After attaching the wisdom teeth adjusting bracket onto the surface of the target wisdom tooth, a correcting wire is passed through a first orthodontics correcting tube of the wisdom teeth adjusting bracket, shown as the step  340 .  FIG. 4A  to  FIG. 4C  illustrates an orthodontics treatment process with the wisdom teeth adjusting bracket of this embodiment. Referred to  FIG. 4A , a correcting wire  410  is passed through a bracket  4122  on a neighboring tooth  412 , and passed the first orthodontics correcting tube  422  of the wisdom teeth adjusting bracket  420  on the target wisdom tooth  414 . 
         [0036]    According to the physical stress of the correcting wire  410 , the target wisdom tooth  414  will be corrected to a first position. Subsequently, if further orthodontics correction is necessary for the target wisdom, the correcting wire  410  will be pulled out from the first orthodontics correcting tube  422  and passed through the second orthodontics correcting tube  424  of the wisdom teeth adjusting bracket  420 , as shown in the step  360  in  FIG. 3  and as shown in  FIG. 4B . So that the correcting wire  410  can provide enough physical stress for further correcting the target wisdom tooth  414 . 
         [0037]    By the physical stress of the correcting wire  410  passed through the second orthodontics correcting tube  424  after the step  360 , the target wisdom tooth  414  will be corrected to a wanted position and angle. In one preferred example of this embodiment, for some wisdom teeth with larger inclined angle or some wisdom teeth required smooth orthodontics correcting process, the target wisdom tooth may not be completely corrected after the step  360 . In order to completely orthodontics correcting the target wisdom tooth, the step  340  or the steps  340  and  360  in  FIG. 3  can be repeated, as shown in  FIG. 4C . 
         [0038]    In summary, we have reported a wisdom teeth adjusting bracket and the method for orthodontics adjusting thereof. The mentioned wisdom teeth adjusting bracket comprises a tooth surface attachment base plate, and at least two orthodontics correcting tubes positioned at the same side of the tooth surface attachment base plate. There is an angle between the orthodontics correcting tubes. During orthodontics treatment, by sequentially passing through different orthodontics correcting tubes of the wisdom teeth adjusting bracket, the correcting wire can provide enough stress for correcting the target wisdom tooth to wanted corrective position and angle. According to this specification, instead of removed by surgery operation in traditional orthodontics treatment, a wisdom tooth can be easily and efficiently corrected by physical stress from a correcting wire. So that the orthodontics treatment according to this specification can approach the purpose of maintaining all teeth without removing wisdom teeth. Preferably, without performing surgery to remove teeth, the orthodontics treatment according to this specification can efficiently decrease the uncomfortable-ness and infection of the patients, and the technology disclosed in this specification also can efficiently decrease the sequela in the traditional orthodontics treatment with surgery for removing wisdom teeth. More preferably, for those patients unsuited for performing surgery, such as patients with blood coagulation disease or weak immunity, the technology of this specification still can provide them a safe orthodontics treatment. 
         [0039]    Obviously many modifications and variations are possible in light of the above teachings. It is therefore to be understood that within the scope of the appended claims the present invention can be practiced otherwise than as specifically described herein. Although specific embodiments have been illustrated and described herein, it is obvious to those skilled in the art that many modifications of the present invention may be made without departing from what is intended to be limited solely by the appended claims.