Patent ID: 7134873

Claim:
An orthodontic wire ligating member engageable with an orthodontic bracket to retain an archwire inserted into a slot in said bracket, said ligating member being an elastically deformable member made of a synthetic resin and comprising: at least two spaced leg portions detachably engageable with said bracket; and a back portion integral with said at least two leg portions and elastically deformable flexibly to engage said bracket, and to retain the archwire of said bracket, wherein said back portion has a wire keeper formed integral with said back portion and inserted into the slot to hold the archwire of said bracket, wherein a spacing between said wire keeper and the archwire is adjusted by varying a thickness of said wire keeper, wherein said leg portions are provided with projections extending along a longitudinal direction of the archwire, said projections being engageable with respective recessed portions formed in lower portions of wings that project from said bracket, wherein said leg portions are disposed on both ends of the back portion and are shaped to be mirror images of each other, and wherein said wire keeper comprises a bottom surface and a top surface, said bottom surface being smaller in surface area than said top surface.