A method of making a customized orthodontic bracket which comprises a bracket base for attaching the bracket at a patient's tooth, a bracket body and an archwire slot, the bracket body extending from the bracket base in a dimension of a bracket height and forming a bracket head adjacent a free end of the bracket body, the bracket head forming a ligating portion which, with respect to another bracket body portion, forms a projection in a dimension of a bracket width, the method comprising the steps of: - providing a three-dimensional tooth model representing the shape of at least part of a patient's tooth; wherein the three-dimensional tooth model is provided in the form of a three-dimensional computer representation; - determining a bracket receiving area on the tooth model ; - deriving a tooth-facing surface from the bracket receiving area, or a copy thereof, in the form of a three-dimensional computer representation; - providing the bracket base with the tooth-facing surface that is shaped according to the three-dimensional shape of the bracket receiving area ; - determining an outline of the bracket head directly on the tooth model , wherein the bracket head outline is determined by - determining a preliminary bracket head outline in a virtual plane; and - projecting the preliminary bracket head outline on the tooth model; - providing the bracket head with a bracket head surface that is shaped according to the three-dimensional shape of the bracket receiving area within the bracket head outline , wherein creation of the bracket head surface encompasses the step of creating an offset of an area on the tooth model which is defined by the bracket head outline and using the offset as the bracket head surface; wherein the step of providing the bracket base with the tooth-facing surface encompasses the steps of - providing an offset of the tooth-facing surface to form a rear surface of the bracket base in the form of a three-dimensional computer representation; and - providing a circumferential side wall extending between the outer boundaries of the tooth-facing surface and the rear surface, and thereby providing the bracket base in the form of a three-dimensional computer representation. - providing a three-dimensional tooth model representing the shape of at least part of a patient's tooth; wherein the three-dimensional tooth model is provided in the form of a three-dimensional computer representation; - determining a bracket receiving area on the tooth model ; - deriving a tooth-facing surface from the bracket receiving area, or a copy thereof, in the form of a three-dimensional computer representation; - providing the bracket base with the tooth-facing surface that is shaped according to the three-dimensional shape of the bracket receiving area ; - determining an outline of the bracket head directly on the tooth model , wherein the bracket head outline is determined by - determining a preliminary bracket head outline in a virtual plane; and - projecting the preliminary bracket head outline on the tooth model; - providing the bracket head with a bracket head surface that is shaped according to the three-dimensional shape of the bracket receiving area within the bracket head outline , wherein creation of the bracket head surface encompasses the step of creating an offset of an area on the tooth model which is defined by the bracket head outline and using the offset as the bracket head surface; - providing an offset of the tooth-facing surface to form a rear surface of the bracket base in the form of a three-dimensional computer representation; and - providing a circumferential side wall extending between the outer boundaries of the tooth-facing surface and the rear surface, and thereby providing the bracket base in the form of a three-dimensional computer representation. <EOS>