Patent ID: 8113828

Claim:
An orthodontic bracket mountable on a tooth coacting with an archwire for obtaining corrective movement to the tooth, said bracket comprising, a base and an archwire receiving member, said bracket base mountable on a tooth, said archwire receiving member having a rectangularly shaped outwardly facing archwire slot coacting with said base to produce a predetermined prescription and for receiving an archwire sized to allow sliding of the bracket along said archwire, means for rotatably mounting said archwire receiving member on said base including a bearing in said archwire receiving member and a stub shaft extending from the base coacting with said bearing, means on the stub shaft coacting with means on said bearing to minimize friction between the base and archwire receiving member during rotation of the archwire receiving member, coacting bearing bars on said base and archwire receiving member having means to minimize friction therebetween, and means for selectively locking the archwire receiving member to the base at a predetermined position in final stages of treatment such that the archwire in said slot will apply forces to the bracket to move the tooth to the predetermined prescription.