CN215130515U - Orthodontic appliance - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model discloses an just abnormal usefulness is rescued ware, just abnormal usefulness is rescued the ware and is included: a fixing piece and a correcting wire; the fixing piece is used for fixing on the tooth surface, and the correction wire is provided with a plurality of curved structures for releasing correction force, and the correction wire is an elastic piece with elasticity and is connected with the fixing piece in a detachable buckling manner. The appliance can accurately control the tooth movement amount and accurately quantify the acting force applied to the local part and the whole of the tooth; greatly saves the time of patients and doctors, greatly saves the medical cost and greatly improves the orthodontic convenience.

Description

Orthodontic appliance

Technical Field

The utility model relates to an orthodontic technology especially relates to an just abnormal ware of rescuing of usefulness.

Background

At present, fixed appliances and movable appliances are commonly used for correcting abnormal dentitions.

The fixed orthodontic device is generally composed of a bracket and an orthodontic arch wire, the bracket produced in batches is generally manufactured by the processes of milling, wire cutting, stamping, powder metallurgy and the like, the bracket produced in a customized mode is generally manufactured by the process of 3D printing of a resin model and then lost wax casting, and the arch wire is generally produced by the process of die wire drawing. When correcting, the bracket is fixed on the tooth surface, the deformed teeth are moved by the acting force between the groove and the correction arch wire to achieve the purpose of correcting, the fixed correction technology has been developed and accumulated for more than one hundred years, a mature mechanical correction system is formed, and the method is the most common orthodontic correction means at present. However, the fixed orthodontic technology has certain defects, after a doctor bonds brackets on the tooth surface, the patient usually needs to go to a hospital for a recheck once in one to two months, the doctor adjusts the arch wire and the brackets or applies force according to the diagnosis condition, the patient with a case with moderate treatment difficulty needs to be rechecked about ten times, the occupied medical treatment time is long, and in addition, the brackets are usually bonded on the side surface of the lip, so the attractiveness is greatly influenced; at present, the bracket adhered to the side surface of the tongue is provided, the aesthetic degree is improved, but the operation difficulty of a doctor is increased because the operation space in the mouth is narrow, the comfort degree is relatively poor, the cost and the expense are relatively high, and the popularization rate is not high.

The most common movable appliance at present is a bracket-free invisible appliance, which is made of a transparent elastic high polymer material into a series of tooth sockets according to the expected moving track of teeth, wherein a series of tooth molds are manufactured according to the track, and then the transparent material is adsorbed on the tooth molds through heat adsorption to form the transparent tooth sockets. Typically, about 50 mouthpieces are required for one case, and are replaced on average every two weeks. The appliance has the greatest advantages that the transparent material is used, the invisible effect is achieved, the attractive degree is high, meanwhile, the patient can freely take off and wear the appliance at any time, and the experience feeling is better. However, the elasticity of the transparent elastic polymer material is difficult to meet the correction requirement, and the attenuation of the elastic force is very quick, so that the early-stage applied force is too large and the later-stage applied force is too small during the wearing; and the currently adopted manufacturing methods are all thermal adsorption processes, so that the force applied to the teeth by the tooth socket cannot be accurately quantified, meanwhile, the adsorption force between the tooth socket and the teeth is insufficient, the teeth cannot completely move along the preset target position under the influence of various factors, the expression rate is usually only about 50%, the adaptation disease is narrow, the tooth socket cannot be applied to more complicated malocclusion, the design scheme is often required to be restarted even in the case process of common difficulty, great troubles are brought to treatment, and the treatment period and cost are greatly increased.

In summary, the prior orthodontic technology has the following disadvantages:

in the fixed orthodontic appliance, the labial appliance is not invisible and beautiful; the lingual appliance has high cost and high technical requirements of doctors, and both the lingual appliance and the lingual appliance need to be matched with an arch wire to achieve the purpose of correction, and the arch wire needs to be replaced periodically; the transparent elastic high polymer material of the bracket-free invisible appliance has insufficient elasticity, too large force application in the early stage of the appliance, too small force application in the later stage, unqualified force applied to teeth, rapid attenuation, regular replacement of the appliance, dozens of pairs of replacement in the whole treatment period, great troubles brought to treatment, and greatly increased treatment period and cost.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

For overcoming the not enough of prior art, the utility model aims to provide an just abnormal appliance of correcting is used, it can solve present fixed correction ware need frequently the double-examination, occupy medical treatment time long, the unable autonomous operation of patient and the stealthy problem of correcting the ware of elasticity macromolecular material elasticity not enough, and change the more treatment cycle length that leads to of secondary and treatment expense height of correcting.

The utility model discloses a following technical scheme realizes:

an orthodontic appliance comprising: a fixing piece and a correcting wire; the fixing piece is used for being fixed on the tooth surface, a plurality of curved structures used for releasing the correcting force are arranged on the correcting wire, the correcting wire is an elastic piece with elasticity, and the correcting wire is connected with the fixing piece in a detachable buckling mode.

Further, the correcting wire is made of a memory metal material.

Further, the fixing member includes: the bottom plate is used for being adhered to the tooth surface, and the pressing piece is used for being matched and connected with the correcting wire; the pressing piece is fixed on the bottom plate, and a buckling groove matched with the cross section shape of the correction wire is formed in the side part of the pressing piece; the correcting wire is provided with a curved inverted concave structure, and the bending direction of the inverted concave structure is suitable for surrounding the buckling groove; the inverted concave structure and the buckling groove are mutually buckled and connected.

Further, the fixing member includes: the bottom plate is used for being adhered to the tooth surface, and the plug connector is used for being matched and connected with the correcting wire; the plug connector is fixed on the bottom plate, and a plug-in groove in a hollow structure is formed in the plug connector; the correcting wire is provided with a curved inverted concave structure, and a bolt suitable for being matched with the inserting groove is further arranged along the inner side direction of the inverted concave structure; the plug pin is in plug-in fit in the plug groove.

Further, the fixing member includes: the first accessory and the second accessory are both adhered to the tooth surface; an accommodating space is formed between the two first accessories, and a clamping groove is formed in the second accessory along the side part of the second accessory; the correcting wire is provided with a curved inverted concave structure, a connecting piece and a buckle piece are arranged on the inverted concave structure, and two ends of the connecting piece are respectively connected with the correcting wire and the buckle piece; the connecting piece is clamped in an accommodating space between the two first accessories, and the shape of the clamping piece is suitable for clamping the clamping groove; the fastener is buckled in the clamping groove.

Further, the fixing member includes: the orthodontic wire comprises a base plate and a clamping piece, wherein the base plate is used for being adhered to a tooth surface, and the clamping piece is used for being matched and connected with the orthodontic wire and is fixed on the base plate; the correcting wire is provided with a curved inverted concave structure, and a plurality of convex structures are arranged on the inner side of the inverted concave structure; the side part of the clamping piece is provided with protruding matching grooves matched with the protruding structures, and the number of the protruding matching grooves corresponds to that of the protruding structures; the protruding structure is clamped in the protruding matching groove.

Further, the fixing member includes: the base plate is used for being adhered to the tooth surface and a plurality of boss structures fixed on the base plate; the top width of the boss structure is larger than the width of the side part of the boss structure, the correction wire is provided with a curved inverted concave structure, and the side part of the inverted concave structure is tightly abutted against the side part of the boss.

Further, the fixing member includes: the bottom plate is used for being adhered to the tooth surface, and the matching piece is used for being matched and connected with the correcting wire; the fitting piece is provided with a groove in a through groove shape, and the correction wire is provided with a long strip part matched with the groove; the long strip portion is buckled in the groove.

Furthermore, one or more protruding structures are arranged on the inverted concave structure of the correction wire, protruding matching grooves matched with the protruding structures are further formed in the side portions of the pressing pieces, and the number of the protruding matching grooves corresponds to that of the protruding structures; the protruding structure is clamped in the protruding matching groove.

Furthermore, the left side part, the right side part and the front side part of the clamping piece are respectively provided with a protrusion matching groove, and the corresponding positions of the correction wires are provided with protrusion structures; the three protruding structures are respectively clamped in the three protruding matching grooves.

Furthermore, three boss structures are arranged on the bottom plate and distributed in a triangular shape; the two ends of the inverted concave structure are respectively abutted against the inner sides of the two boss structures, and the middle of the inverted concave structure is abutted against the outer side of the other boss structure.

Furthermore, clamping rings are fixedly arranged at two ends of the long strip portion, the outer diameter of each clamping ring is larger than the inner diameter of the corresponding groove, and the two clamping rings respectively abut against two end portions of the corresponding groove.

Further, the orthodontic wire comprises an anterior tooth section and a posterior tooth section; the other side of the rear tooth section of the orthodontic wire, which is opposite to the buckle piece, is provided with a wrapping part which extends outwards, and the shape of the wrapping part is suitable for covering and wrapping the side part of the tooth.

Further, the curved structure includes: shoe-shaped curve, vertical opening curve, vertical closing curve, vertical opening curve with a ring, vertical closing curve with a ring, horizontal curve with a ring, gate-shaped curve, omega curve and small circle curve.

Furthermore, a plurality of single-curved structures are arranged on the correction wire section between every two adjacent fixing parts, or a plurality of combined double-curved structures simultaneously comprising any two single-curved structures are arranged, or a plurality of combined multi-curved structures simultaneously comprising any multiple single-curved structures are arranged.

Further, the orthodontic appliance further comprises a cross palatal bar; the two end parts of the cross palate rod are connected with the correction wires, and the cross palate rod and the correction wires are fixedly connected or integrally formed.

Further, a hook or a traction hook interface is arranged on the cross palatal bar or the correction wire.

Further, the orthodontic appliance further comprises an arch expander; and two ends of the arch expander are fixed on the correcting wire.

Further, the orthodontic appliance further comprises a southern western arch; the two ends of the southern western arch are fixed on the correction wires.

Further, the orthodontic appliance further comprises a tongue thorn or a tongue stopper; the tongue thorn or the tongue block is connected with the correcting wire.

Further, the orthodontic wire is of a double-rail structure and comprises: lingual and buccal rails; the end parts of the lingual side rails are connected with the end parts of the buccal side rails, the lingual side rails are fixed on lingual sides of part of teeth or all teeth, and the buccal side rails are fixed on buccal sides of posterior teeth part and cuspid teeth part or buccal sides of all teeth, so that the lingual side rails and the buccal side rails jointly wrap tooth segments to be corrected.

Further, the correcting wire is any one of titanium-based alloy, nickel-based alloy and ferromanganese alloy.

Further, the cross-sectional shape of the orthodontic wire is any one of a circle, an ellipse, a horseshoe, a square, a polygon and a triangle, or a combination of any two or more thereof.

Further, the shape of the fixing member is any one of a sphere, an ellipse, a half-heart, a triangle, or a combination of any two or more thereof.

Compared with the prior art, the utility model discloses the beneficial effect that can reach does:

the utility model combines the correction concepts of the current fixed correction technology and the movable correction technology, and solves the problems existing in the two technologies;

the tooth correction device comprises a correction wire, a fixing piece, a plurality of curved structures and a bracket, wherein the correction wire is provided with the curved structures capable of continuously releasing correction force;

the fixing piece can be fixed on the tooth surface at the tongue side, so that the problem of beauty caused by fixing the orthodontic appliance at the lip side at present is solved;

the fixing piece and the correction wire are connected through a detachable buckling structure, the patient can independently take and wear the correction wire, the doctor only needs to deliver a plurality of prepared auxiliary correction wires to the patient, the patient can independently change the corresponding correction wire according to different correction stages, the operation difficulty is low, and the patient only needs a simple buckling action to complete. The utility model fundamentally changes the current orthodontic diagnosis and treatment mode, and the patient can independently wear and treat and change the orthodontic wire after obtaining the orthodontic wire, thereby greatly reducing the times of the doctor to go back to the hospital, compared with the current orthodontic technology in which the patient needs to frequently go back to the hospital, the utility model greatly saves the time of the patient and the doctor, greatly saves the medical cost, and greatly improves the orthodontic convenience;

drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic view showing a wearing state of an orthodontic appliance according to a first embodiment;

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of the orthodontic wire of the first embodiment;

FIG. 3 is a partial schematic view of the orthodontic wire of the first embodiment;

FIG. 4 is a schematic view of a fixing member according to the first embodiment;

FIG. 5 is a schematic view of the fastener and the orthodontic wire according to the first embodiment;

fig. 6 is a schematic view showing a wearing state of the orthodontic appliance of the second embodiment;

FIG. 7 is a schematic view of the orthodontic wire of the second embodiment;

FIG. 8 is a schematic view of the fastener and the orthodontic wire of the second embodiment;

FIG. 9 is a partial schematic view of the orthodontic wire of the second embodiment;

FIG. 10 is a schematic view of a fixing member according to the second embodiment;

fig. 11 is a schematic view showing a wearing state of the orthodontic appliance of the third embodiment;

FIG. 12 is a schematic view of the orthodontic wire of the third embodiment;

FIG. 13 is a schematic view of the fastener and the orthodontic wire of the third embodiment engaged with each other to be fastened to the tooth surface;

FIG. 14 is a schematic view of the fastener and the orthodontic wire of the third embodiment;

FIG. 15 is a partial schematic view of the orthodontic wire of the third embodiment;

fig. 16 is a schematic view of a fixing member according to a third embodiment;

FIG. 17 is a sectional view of a second attachment according to the third embodiment;

fig. 18 is a schematic view showing a worn state of the orthodontic appliance of the fourth embodiment;

FIG. 19 is a schematic view of the orthodontic wire of the fourth embodiment;

FIG. 20 is a partial schematic view of the orthodontic wire of the fourth embodiment;

FIG. 21 is a schematic view showing a fixing member according to the fourth embodiment;

FIG. 22 is a schematic view of the fastener and the orthodontic wire according to the fourth embodiment;

FIG. 23 is a partial schematic view of the orthodontic wire of the fifth embodiment;

FIG. 24 is a schematic view showing a fixing member according to the fifth embodiment;

FIG. 25 is a schematic view of the fifth embodiment of the fastener and the orthodontic wire;

FIG. 26 is a partial schematic view of the wire of the sixth embodiment;

FIG. 27 is a schematic view of a fixing member according to the sixth embodiment;

FIG. 28 is a schematic view of the fastener and the orthodontic wire of the sixth embodiment;

FIG. 29a is a schematic view of an open vertical bend configuration;

FIG. 29b is a schematic view of a closed vertical curve;

FIG. 29c is a schematic view of the structure of the open vertical bend of the band;

FIG. 29d is a schematic view of the structure of the closed vertical curve with loop;

FIG. 29e is a schematic view of a structure of a horizontal bend;

FIG. 29f is a schematic view of a horizontally curved configuration of the band;

FIG. 29g is a schematic diagram of a gate-shaped flexure;

FIG. 29h is a schematic diagram of an omega curve structure;

FIG. 29i is a schematic view of a structure of a small circle;

FIG. 30a is a first exemplary diagram of a single-bend structure;

FIG. 30b is a second schematic view of a single-bend configuration;

FIG. 30c is a third exemplary diagram of a single-curved structure;

FIG. 30d is a fourth exemplary diagram of a single-curved structure;

FIG. 31a shows a first exemplary view of a doubly curved structure;

FIG. 31b shows a second exemplary view of a doubly curved structure;

FIG. 32 is a schematic view of an orthodontic appliance with cross palatal bars;

FIG. 33 is a schematic view of a wire with cross palatal bar;

FIG. 34 is a schematic view of a predetermined traction hook configuration on a cross palatal bar;

FIG. 35 is a schematic view of a predetermined towing hook structure on the orthodontic wire;

FIG. 36 is a schematic view of an orthodontic appliance with an expander;

FIG. 37 is a schematic view of an orthodontic wire with an expander;

FIG. 38 is a schematic view showing a wearing state of the buccolingual bilateral orbital orthosis wire;

FIG. 39 is a schematic view of a bilateral orbital appliance wire for the cheek and tongue;

fig. 40 is a schematic view of a preset projection structure of the orthodontic wire of the first embodiment;

FIG. 41 is a schematic view showing a fitting groove of a fitting presettingprotrusion according to the first embodiment;

FIG. 42 is a schematic view showing the engagement of the protrusion and the protrusion engagement groove according to the first embodiment;

FIG. 43a is a schematic view of a first cross-sectional shape of the wire;

FIG. 43b is a schematic view of a second cross-sectional shape of the wire;

FIG. 43c is a schematic view of a third cross-sectional shape of the wire;

FIG. 43d is a schematic view of a fourth cross-sectional shape of the wire;

FIG. 43e is a fifth cross-sectional shape of the wire;

FIG. 43f is a sixth cross-sectional shape of the wire;

FIG. 43g is a schematic view of a seventh cross-sectional shape of the wire;

FIG. 44a is a schematic view of the wire controlling the mesial-distal movement of teeth;

FIG. 44b is a schematic view of the wire controlling gingival jaw movement;

FIG. 44c is a schematic view of the wire controlling the tilting movement of the tooth axis;

FIG. 44d is a schematic view of the wire controlling sagittal movement of the tooth;

FIG. 44e is a schematic view of the wire controlling the torque movement of the teeth;

FIG. 44f is a schematic view of the wire controlling the torsional movement of the tooth;

fig. 45 is a flow chart illustrating a method of manufacturing the orthodontic appliance.

In the figure: 10. a fixing member; 11. a base plate; 12. a pressing part; 121. buckling the groove; 13. a plug-in unit; 131. a plugging groove; 14. a first accessory; 15. a second accessory; 151. a card slot; 16. the protrusion is matched with the groove; 17. a fastener; 18. a boss structure; 19. a mating member; 191. a groove; 20. correcting wires; 21. a curved structure; 211. opening a vertical curve; 212. closing the vertical curve; 213. opening the belt ring to vertically bend; 214. the belt ring is closed and vertically bent; 215. horizontal bending; 216. horizontally bending the belt ring; 217. a gate-shaped curve; 218. omega curves; 219. a small circle of curves; 22. an inverted concave structure; 23. a bolt; 24. a connecting member; 25. a fastener; 26. a raised structure; 27. a wrapping section; 28. a lingual rail; 29. buccal side rails; 210. a long strip; 2101. a snap ring; 30. a tooth; 40. a cross palatal bar; 50. a towing hook interface; 60. an arch expander.

Detailed Description

The present invention will be further described with reference to the accompanying drawings and the detailed description, and it should be noted that the embodiments or technical features described below can be arbitrarily combined to form a new embodiment without conflict.

In the description of the present invention, it is to be understood that the terms "center", "length", "width", "thickness", "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", and the like indicate orientations or positional relationships based on those shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of description and simplicity of description, and do not indicate or imply that the device or element referred to must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and therefore, should not be construed as limiting the present invention.

Furthermore, the terms "first", "second" and "first" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include one or more of that feature. In the description of the present invention, "a plurality" means two or more unless specifically limited otherwise.

In the description of the present invention, it is to be noted that, unless otherwise explicitly specified or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," and "connected" are to be construed broadly, and may be, for example, fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally connected; can be mechanically or electrically connected; either directly or indirectly through intervening media, either internally or in any other relationship. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present invention can be understood according to specific situations by those skilled in the art.

Referring to fig. 1, 6 and 11, the present invention discloses an orthodontic appliance, including: anchors 10 and orthosis wires 20. The fixing piece 10 is used for fixing on the tooth surface, especially for adhering on the tooth surface of the tongue side, and is at least used for correcting two or more teeth 30; the correcting wire 20 is provided with a plurality of curved structures 21 for releasing correcting force, the curved structures 21 are curved structures formed by bending the correcting wire 20, and the correcting wire 20 is an elastic piece with elasticity; the orthodontic wire 20 and the fixing piece 10 are detachably buckled and connected. When correcting the connection of silk 20 lock at mounting 10, mounting 10 provides the fixed action, because the curved structure 21 that corrects on the silk 20 possesses the resilience characteristic and sustainable release and corrects the power, consequently can control to realize accurate the removal between the tooth 30, realizes just abnormal effect. The wire 20 can comprise a series of multiple pairs of wires 20, each pair of wires 20 corresponding to a set of deformations at one step in the movement of the teeth 30.

The wire 20 may be specifically selected from memory metal materials including, but not limited to, titanium-based alloys, nickel-based alloys, and ferromanganese alloys. Of course, the orthodontic wire 20 made of other memory metal materials known in the art should be within the scope of the present invention. The orthodontic wire 20 made of the memory metal material is more fit with the shape of the teeth 30 of the patient in the oral cavity, the memory shape of the orthodontic wire 20 for providing the orthodontic force required by the teeth 30 can be activated through the temperature of the oral cavity of a human body, and the memory shape has good hyperelasticity; moreover, the memory metal material can continuously release acting force, the force is easier to control and more fit, appropriate force can be output at different stages of correction, and the problem of rapid elastic attenuation of the high-molecular elastic material of the transparent corrector is not easy to occur, so that the problems of overlarge early-stage force application and insufficient later-stage force application of the transparent corrector are avoided; and simultaneously, the utility model discloses a ware can be rescued in the pair can satisfy the whole demand of rescuring the process, also can certainly design many pairs according to actual demand and rescure the ware to satisfy the patient in the demand of rescuring of different stages, compare in transparent rescuring the ware and need tens of pairs just can accomplish the treatment, the utility model discloses reduced patient's medical cost and time cost by a wide margin, improved patient's treatment and experienced.

The principle of the wire 20 interacting with the fastener 10 through the curved structure 21 to control the tooth movement is described as follows: as shown in fig. 44 a-44 f, the dotted line is the shape of the orthodontic wire 20 designed according to the orthodontic requirement, the solid line is the shape of the orthodontic wire 20 in the actual orthodontic process, and the arrow indicates the tooth moving direction. When correcting the beginning, correcting in the silk 20 card goes into the mounting 10, correct silk 20 and be located the solid line position in the picture this moment, because correct silk 20 and be the better elastic material of resilience characteristic, consequently correct silk 20 and can take place the resilience to correcting the silk shape (being dotted line position in the picture) to predetermineeing in advance at the in-process of correcting, correct silk 20 and will correct power transmission and give the mounting to act on tooth 30, the accurate near-middle of control tooth 30, the gingival jaw is to, sagittal, the axil, the moment, the torsional removal.

Wherein, the meaning of the above-mentioned various moving directions is: (1) near-far-middle: referring to fig. 44a, mesial refers to the direction closer to the midline of the face, and distal refers to the direction further away; the midline is an imaginary line which bisects the cranium face into a left part and a right part and is equal, and the midline passes between two eyes, between the nose tip and two middle incisors of the upper jaw and between two middle incisors of the lower jaw; (2) gingiva and jaw orientation: referring to fig. 44b, the side of the upper and lower posterior teeth that contacts during occlusion is called maxillofacial; (3) shaft inclination: referring to fig. 44c, the angle formed by the long axis of the dental clinical crown perpendicular to the jaw plane; (4) sagittal direction: referring to fig. 44d, the X-ray center line is incident from the front or rear of the subject's body in a direction parallel to the sagittal plane; (5) torque: referring to fig. 44e, the angle between the long axis of the clinical crown of the finger and the vertical plane reflects the labial (buccal) lingual inclination of the tooth. (6) Twisting: referring to fig. 44f, rotation about the long axis of the crown from the maxillofacial perspective is shown.

The utility model discloses combined present fixed correction technique and the rescue theory of technique is rescued in the activity, solved both current existing problems:

firstly, a plurality of curved structures 21 capable of continuously releasing the correcting force are arranged on the correcting wire 20, the movement amount of the teeth 30 can be accurately controlled through the matching effect of the correcting wire 20 and the fixing piece 10 and the resilience effect of the curved structures 21, the acting force applied to the local part and the whole of the teeth 30 can be accurately quantized, and the problems that the existing bracket-free invisible correcting device applies too large force in the early stage of correction and too small force in the later stage can be solved;

the fixing piece 10 can be fixed on the tooth surface of the tongue side, so that the problem of beauty caused by fixing the orthodontic appliance on the lip side at present is solved;

fixing piece 10 and correction wire 20 are connected through detachable buckle structure, and the patient can take off and wear correction wire 20 voluntarily, and the doctor only need hand over a plurality of pairs of prepared correction wire 20 for the patient, and the patient can come the corresponding wire 20 of correcting of autonomically changing in the stage of correcting in response to the difference, and the operation degree of difficulty is low, and the patient only needs simple lock action can accomplish. The utility model discloses fundamentally has changed present just abnormal diagnosis and treatment mode, and the patient just can independently wear after getting to rescue wire 20 and rescure and change and rescue wire 20, has reduced the number of times of doctor's department's double-examination by a wide margin, compares in present just abnormal technique the patient need frequently go to the hospital and double-examine, the utility model discloses greatly saved patient and doctor's time, saved medical cost by a wide margin, greatly improved just abnormal convenience.

With respect to the specific structure and connection of the fasteners 10 and the orthosis wires 20, six examples are provided below.

The first embodiment is as follows: referring to fig. 1-5, the fastener 10 includes a base plate 11 for adhering to the tooth surface and a snap 12 for mating connection with the wire 20. The pressing piece 12 is fixed on the bottom plate 11, and the pressing piece 12 is provided with a buckling groove 121 matched with the cross section shape of the orthodontic wire 20 along the side part thereof, so that the width of the pressing piece 12 in the side part direction is smaller than that of the upper surface thereof. The correcting wire 20 has a curved inverted concave structure 22, the bending direction of the inverted concave structure 22 is suitable for surrounding the fastening groove 121, and the correcting wire 20 is fastened and connected in the fastening groove 121 of the fixing element 10 through the inverted concave structure 22. Because the correcting wire 20 is elastic, when the patient wears the correcting wire 20, the correcting wire 20 is put into the oral cavity, the position of the inverted concave structure 22 of the correcting wire is aligned with the pressing piece 12, and then the correcting wire 20 can be clamped into the fixing piece 10 after being pressed inwards; when the orthodontic wire 20 is taken out or replaced, the orthodontic wire 20 is pulled out in the opposite direction with a little force. The embodiment directly corrects the silk 20 through the bending and comes to cooperate with the mounting 10 to be connected, has the characteristics of convenient use, simple structure, strong connection stability.

According to the correction requirement, if the correction force needs to be further enhanced, referring to fig. 40-42, one or more convex structures 26 can be additionally arranged on the inverted concave structure 22 of the correction wire 20, convex matching grooves 16 matched with the convex structures 26 are formed on the side portions of the pressing pieces 12, and the number of the convex structures 26 corresponds to that of the convex matching grooves 16; the protrusion 26 is engaged with the protrusion engaging groove 16 to enhance the orthodontic force of the orthodontic wire 20 in the direction to achieve the three-dimensional square tooth 30 movement.

Example two: referring to fig. 6 to 10, the fixing member 10 includes a base plate 11 for adhering to the tooth surface and a plug 13 for coupling with the orthodontic wire 20. The plug connector 13 is fixed on the bottom plate 11, and a plug-in slot 131 with a hollow structure is formed in the plug connector 13; the correcting wire 20 is provided with a curved inverted concave structure 22, and a bolt 23 suitable for being matched with the inserting groove 131 is further arranged on the correcting wire 20 along the inner side direction of the inverted concave structure 22; the orthodontic wire 20 is inserted into the insertion groove 131 of the fixing member 10 by the insertion pin 23. When a patient wears the correcting wire 20, the correcting wire 20 is placed in the oral cavity, the bolt 23 is aligned to the position above the insertion groove, and then the bolt is buckled downwards, so that the correcting wire 20 can be positioned; when the orthodontic wire 20 is taken out, the orthodontic wire is pulled out upward.

And (3) implementation: referring to fig. 11-17, the fixture 10 includes a first attachment 14 and a second attachment 15, the first attachment 14 and the second attachment 15 are both adhered to the tooth surface, the first attachment 14 is similar to a common attachment structure commonly used for transparent appliances and functions as a "handle"; the second accessory 15 is of a special structure compared with the first accessory 14, and the second accessory 15 is provided with a circumferential clamping groove 151 along the side part; the correcting wire 20 is provided with a curved inverted concave structure 22, a connecting piece 24 and a fastener 25 are arranged on the inverted concave structure 22, and two ends of the connecting piece 24 are respectively connected with the correcting wire 20 and the fastener 25. The connecting piece 24 of the orthodontic wire 20 is clamped in the accommodating space between the two first accessories 14 to play a role in limiting; the shape of the locking member 25 matches the shape of the locking groove 151, and the locking member 25 is locked in the locking groove 151. When the orthodontic wire is worn, the orthodontic wire 20 is worn downwards from the incised end direction of the teeth 30, and the fastener 25 of the orthodontic wire 20 is clamped into the clamping groove 151 of the second accessory 15 to realize positioning; precise control of tooth 30 movement is achieved by the interaction of coupling 24 and first attachment 14. Unlike the first embodiment, in which the first embodiment is a snap-fit by pressing in the transverse direction, the third embodiment is a vertically inserted snap 25 into the snap groove 151, and the snap 25 can clamp the second attachment 15 by the elastic action of the orthodontic wire 20.

Preferably, referring to fig. 11-12, the wire 20 can be divided into an anterior segment and a posterior segment. The other side of the posterior tooth segment of the orthodontic wire 20 opposite to the fastener 25 is provided with a wrapping part 27 extending outwards, and the wrapping part 27 has a structural shape suitable for covering and wrapping the side part of the tooth 30 and is designed in a half-wrapping manner. With the fixture 10, the teeth 30 can be precisely controlled for movement, such as torque, tilt, twist, etc. Of course, the orthodontic wire 20 may not distinguish between the anterior and posterior segments; in addition, the orthodontic wire 20 of the first and second embodiments can also be divided into an anterior tooth segment and a posterior tooth segment, that is, the posterior tooth segment of the orthodontic wire 20 of the first and second embodiments can also be correspondingly provided with the wrapping portion 27, which is determined according to the actual orthodontic requirements.

Example four: referring to fig. 18-22, the fixing member 10 includes a base plate 11 for adhering to the tooth surface and a snap member 17 for engaging with the orthodontic wire, and the snap member 17 is fixed to the base plate 11. The correcting wire 20 is provided with a curved inverted concave structure 22, and a plurality of convex structures 26 are arranged on the inner side of the inverted concave structure 22; meanwhile, the side part of the clamping piece 17 is provided with a protrusion matching groove 16 matched with the protrusion structure 26, and the position and the number of the protrusion matching groove 16 correspond to those of the protrusion structure 26. The orthodontic wire 20 is engaged in the protrusion engaging groove 16 by the protrusion 26. When the orthodontic wire is worn, the convex structures 26 of the orthodontic wire 20 are placed approximately above the convex matching grooves 16 of the clamping pieces 17, and then the orthodontic wire 20 is pressed downwards by force, and the orthodontic wire 20 can be clamped into the fixing pieces 10 due to the elasticity of the orthodontic wire 20; when the device is disassembled, the device can be taken out in the opposite direction.

Specifically, the engaging member 17 has 3 protrusion engaging grooves 16, and the correction wire has 3 protrusion structures 26. A protruding cooperation groove 16 is seted up respectively to left side portion, right side portion, the preceding lateral part of fastener 17, and the corresponding position of correcting wire 20 all is equipped with protruding structure 26, and three protruding structure 26 block respectively forms high stability's connection structure in three protruding cooperation groove 16, makes to correct the difficult pine of wire 20 and takes off.

Example five: referring to fig. 23-25, the fixture 10 includes a base plate 11 for adhering to the tooth surface and a plurality of boss structures 18 secured to the base plate 11. The top width of the boss structure 18 is larger than the side width, and the structure is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom; the wire 20 has a curved inverted concave structure 22, and the side of the inverted concave structure 22 is tightly abutted against the side of the boss structure 18. When the orthodontic wire is worn, the orthodontic wire 20 is clamped into the side part of the boss structure 18 from the upper part, and the boss structure 18 is wide at the upper part and narrow at the lower part, so that the orthodontic wire 20 cannot be loosened in the vertical direction; meanwhile, because the orthodontic wire 20 has elasticity, the two ends of the inverted concave structure 22 are tightly pressed on the convex structures 18, so that the clamping state can be kept in the horizontal direction.

Specifically, 3 boss structures 18 are arranged on the bottom plate 11 and distributed in a triangular shape; the two ends of the inverted concave structure 22 are respectively abutted against the inner sides of the two boss structures 18, and the middle part of the inverted concave structure 22 is abutted against the outer side of the other boss structure 18, so that the orthodontic wire 20 is tightly jacked; the cooperation between the 3 boss structures 18 and the wire 20 forms a stable attachment structure.

Example six: referring to fig. 26-28, the fixture 10 includes a base plate 11 for adhering to the tooth surface and a mating member 19 for mating connection with the wire. The fitting piece 19 is provided with a groove 191 in a through groove shape, the correcting wire 20 is provided with a long strip portion 210 matched with the groove 191, and the long strip portion 210 is buckled in the groove 191. When the garment is worn, the long strip 210 is aligned with the groove 191 and is pressed into the groove 191; when the device is disassembled, the device is taken out in the opposite direction.

Preferably, the two ends of the long strip 210 are further fixedly provided with a snap ring 2101, the outer diameter of the snap ring 2101 is larger than the inner diameter of the groove 191, and the two snap rings 2101 abut against the two ends of the groove 191, so that the correcting wire 20 cannot move and loosen along the axial direction of the long strip 210.

It should be noted that, the six embodiments are only exemplary, and the cooperation manner of the fixing member 10 and the orthodontic wire 20 of the present invention includes but is not limited to the six forms, and all the conventional fastening connection structure that can be easily disassembled and assembled is adopted, which should be within the protection scope of the present invention.

For different correction purposes, referring to fig. 29 a-29 i, the curved structure 21 can be designed into a variety of different structural forms, including but not limited to: shoe-shaped curve, vertical open big curve, open vertical curve 211, closed vertical curve 212, open vertical curve 213 with ring, closed vertical curve 214 with ring, horizontal curve 215, horizontal curve 216 with ring, gate curve 217, omega curve 218 and small curve 219. The curved structure 21 is shown by way of example only in partial form, and all curved structures 21 known in the orthodontic field are intended to be within the scope of the present invention.

According to the actual demand of correcting, to the same silk 20 of correcting, the silk section of correcting between two adjacent fixings 10 can set up the single curved structure of a plurality of, or include the combination formula hyperbolic structure of arbitrary two kinds of above-mentioned single curved structures when setting up a plurality of, include the combination formula polygraph structure of arbitrary multiple above-mentioned single curved structure when setting up a plurality of again.

The function of the partially curved structure 21 is illustrated below. Single-bent structure 21: (1) referring to fig. 30 a-30 b, a single shoe curve is provided to achieve three-dimensional control of the teeth 30. The boot-shaped curves may be arranged in different directions to achieve different orthodontic functions, mainly manifested as the effects of depressing, raising and twisting the orthodontic teeth 30. (2) Referring to fig. 30c, a single band opening vertical curve 213 is provided, which is mainly used to open the gap between the teeth and is particularly suitable for the early correction of severe crowding cases of teeth, so as to achieve the purposes of applying labial and buccal movement, torsion, elongation, depression, etc. to the teeth 30. (3) Referring to fig. 30d, a single closed vertical curve 212 is provided that can be used to close the gap between two teeth 30, or a group of teeth. Hyperbolic structure 21: (1) combination 1, the two single curved structures 21 are combined into a double curved structure 21 according to the position relationship shown in fig. 31a, and the double curved structure 21 is used for closing the gap and controlling the force of the teeth 30 in the three-dimensional direction; (2) in the combination 2, the two single-curved structures 21 are combined into the double-curved structure 21 according to the position relationship shown in fig. 31b, so that the function of closing the gaps between the teeth 30 is achieved while the vertical force of the teeth 30 is controlled. For example, a single curved structure 21 or wire 20 has weak control in the vertical direction of the tooth 30, and the strengthening of the orthodontic force can be realized by the superposition combination of a plurality of curved structures 21 or wires 20 and curved structures 21.

According to the correction requirements of different patients, the correction wire 20 can be further designed individually, and various conventional correction accessories are added. Preferably, referring to fig. 32-33, the present invention further comprises a cross palatal bar 40, wherein two ends of the cross palatal bar 40 are connected to the correction wire 20, and the cross palatal bar 40 and the correction wire 20 can be fixedly connected or integrally formed; further preferably, referring to fig. 34-35, the palatal bar 40 or the wire 20 is also provided with a hook or distraction hook interface 50 for providing a distraction site for the bone screw and elastic band. Preferably, referring to fig. 36-37, the present invention further comprises an arch expander 60 for expanding the arch from the middle to both sides, and both ends of the arch expander 60 are fixed to the orthodontic wire 20. Preferably, the utility model also comprises a nance hold arch (not shown) with three-dimensional control anchorage function; the two ends of the southern western arch are fixed to the orthodontic wires 20. Thirdly, the utility model can also comprise tongue spines or tongue blocks (not shown); the tongue thorn or the tongue block is connected with the correcting wire.

Preferably, the wire 20 can be designed as a buccal and lingual bilateral rail structure. Referring to fig. 38-39, the wire 20 includes lingual rails 28 and buccal rails 29; the end of the lingual side rail 28 is connected with the end of the buccal side rail 29, the lingual side rail 28 is fixed on the lingual side of part of the teeth 30 or all the teeth 30 (whole tooth segments), and the buccal side rail 29 is fixed on the buccal side of the posterior tooth part and the cuspid part or all the teeth 30, so that the lingual side rail 28 and the buccal side rail 29 jointly wrap the tooth part to be corrected, and the tooth part to be corrected is determined according to the correction requirement. In addition, the ends of the lingual rail 28 and the buccal rail 29 may be connected from the gap between the posterior and cuspid sections, or from the maxillofacial region. Therefore, the buccal side and the lingual side exert the orthodontic force on the teeth 30 at the same time, the teeth 30 can be controlled to move more accurately, and the purpose of assisting the buccal side to align or double-track adduction can be achieved.

Preferably, referring to fig. 43 a-43 g, the cross-sectional shape of the orthodontic wire 20 is any one of circular, oval, horseshoe, square, polygonal, triangular, or a combination of any two or more thereof, depending on the actual orthodontic requirements. Of course, other conventional cross-sectional shapes are within the scope of the present invention.

Preferably, the shape of the fixing member 10 is any one of a sphere, an ellipse, a half-heart, a triangle, or a combination of any two or more thereof. Of course, other conventional shapes for the mounting member 10 are within the scope of the present invention.

The utility model also discloses a manufacturing approach of just abnormal usefulness correction ware, it can be used for making above-mentioned just abnormal usefulness correction ware, refer to fig. 45, and this manufacturing approach includes the following step at least:

data acquisition: acquiring three-dimensional data of a dental crown and a dental root of a patient in a three-dimensional scanning or oral CBCT or ultrasonic mode;

tooth arrangement: importing the acquired oral cavity data of the patient into computer software, and determining the moving track of the teeth 30 according to the orthodontic requirements of the patient; according to the requirements of biomechanics, disassembling the moving track of the whole mouth of teeth into a plurality of correction steps;

designing the fixing piece 10 and the orthodontic wire 20: designing a fixing piece on the surface of the tooth according to the specific tooth condition and the correction requirement of a patient; determining the shape of a detachable buckling connecting section correcting wire matched with the fixing piece according to the shape and the tooth surface shape of the fixing piece, designing the correcting wire at the position in the gap between adjacent teeth, and connecting all the correcting wires at the matching section of the fixing piece and the correcting wires at the gap between the adjacent teeth to form a complete correcting wire; each correction step corresponds to one correction wire;

in this step, preferably, the types of the curved structures 21 of the orthodontic wires 20, the specific number and combination manner of the curved structures, the sizes of the orthodontic wires 20 at different positions, the shapes of the orthodontic wires 20, and the like can be designed, so as to precisely control the movement of the teeth 30, so as to achieve different orthodontic requirements, such as torque, axial inclination, torsion or closing of gaps between the teeth 30, and lowering of the teeth 30; the position of the orthodontic wire 20 corresponding to each tooth 30 can be designed locally or wholly in an individualized manner, and the moving force of the teeth 30 is quantified according to the biomechanical requirement of the movement of the teeth 30, so that the moving amount of the teeth 30 is accurately controlled, and the orthodontic efficiency is improved;

different orthodontic requirements, such as opening gaps between large teeth 30, closing gaps between teeth 30, pressing down, lifting, twisting teeth 30 and the like, are met by designing the curved structure 21 of the orthodontic wire 20 between the two teeth 30 in a manner of the size, the placing direction, the shape and the like of a curve;

in the step, preferably, according to the specific dental condition and the correction requirement of the patient, the shape, size, thickness and detachable fastening mode of the fixing piece 10 are designed, wherein the fixing piece 10 and the correction wire 20 are detachably fastened and connected in a matched manner, so that the correction wire 20 and the teeth 30 are mutually matched and act, and the correction purpose of precisely moving the teeth 30 is achieved; the shape of the fixing member 10 may be, but is not limited to, a sphere, an ellipse, a half-heart, a triangle, etc.; the shapes of the fixing pieces 10 can be combined at will according to the correction requirements, and different fixing pieces 10 can meet different correction requirements by matching with different correction devices;

3D printing: inputting the computer model data of the orthodontic wire 20 into a 3D printer, and printing and forming to manufacture an entity orthodontic wire 20;

preferably, the method further comprises the step of post-processing the orthodontic wire 20: and (3) carrying out heat treatment setting on the molded correcting wire 20 to eliminate internal stress, and carrying out surface treatment on the correcting wire to reduce the surface roughness, wherein the surface treatment mode is any one or more of mechanical grinding, polishing, electrolysis and acid etching.

Preferably, in the 3D printing step: the solid orthodontic wire can be any one of a memory metal material, a castable resin material and a wax material.

According to the demand is rescued to biomechanics requirement and patient individuality, after gathering patient's oral cavity data, manufacture fast through 3D printing method and rescue silk 20, compare in present fixed ware of rescuring need through milling, line cutting, complex manufacturing processes such as punching press, powder metallurgy, lost wax casting, mould wire drawing, the utility model discloses a production weak point consuming time, production efficiency is high, greatly saved manufacturing process step, has reduced medical cost, and the machining precision compares in machining easier control more. The appliance prepared by the manufacturing method can continuously release the correction force in the correction process, can accurately quantify the force applied to the local part and the whole part of the tooth 30, has accurate correction, saves the treatment cost, is simple and easy to use, and is comfortable to wear.

The above embodiments are only preferred embodiments of the present invention, and the protection scope of the present invention cannot be limited thereby, and any insubstantial changes and substitutions made by those skilled in the art based on the present invention are all within the protection scope of the present invention.

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1. An orthodontic appliance, comprising: a fixing piece and a correcting wire; the fixing piece is used for being fixed on the tooth surface, a plurality of curved structures used for releasing the correcting force are arranged on the correcting wire, the correcting wire is an elastic piece with elasticity, and the correcting wire is connected with the fixing piece in a detachable buckling mode.

2. The orthodontic appliance of claim 1, wherein the wire is a memory metal material.

3. The orthodontic appliance of claim 1, wherein the fastener comprises: the bottom plate is used for being adhered to the tooth surface, and the pressing piece is used for being matched and connected with the correcting wire; the pressing piece is fixed on the bottom plate, and a buckling groove matched with the cross section shape of the correction wire is formed in the side part of the pressing piece; the correcting wire is provided with a curved inverted concave structure, and the bending direction of the inverted concave structure is suitable for surrounding the buckling groove; the inverted concave structure and the buckling groove are mutually buckled and connected.

4. The orthodontic appliance of claim 1, wherein the fastener comprises: the bottom plate is used for being adhered to the tooth surface, and the plug connector is used for being matched and connected with the correcting wire; the plug connector is fixed on the bottom plate, and a plug-in groove in a hollow structure is formed in the plug connector; the correcting wire is provided with a curved inverted concave structure, and a bolt suitable for being matched with the inserting groove is further arranged along the inner side direction of the inverted concave structure; the plug pin is in plug-in fit in the plug groove.

5. The orthodontic appliance of claim 1, wherein the fastener comprises: the first accessory and the second accessory are both adhered to the tooth surface; an accommodating space is formed between the two first accessories, and a clamping groove is formed in the second accessory along the side part of the second accessory; the correcting wire is provided with a curved inverted concave structure, a connecting piece and a buckle piece are arranged on the inverted concave structure, and two ends of the connecting piece are respectively connected with the correcting wire and the buckle piece; the connecting piece is clamped in an accommodating space between the two first accessories, and the shape of the clamping piece is suitable for clamping the clamping groove; the fastener is buckled in the clamping groove.

6. The orthodontic appliance of claim 1, wherein the fastener comprises: the orthodontic wire comprises a base plate and a clamping piece, wherein the base plate is used for being adhered to a tooth surface, and the clamping piece is used for being matched and connected with the orthodontic wire and is fixed on the base plate; the correcting wire is provided with a curved inverted concave structure, and a plurality of convex structures are arranged on the inner side of the inverted concave structure; the side part of the clamping piece is provided with protruding matching grooves matched with the protruding structures, and the number of the protruding matching grooves corresponds to that of the protruding structures; the protruding structure is clamped in the protruding matching groove.

7. The orthodontic appliance of claim 1, wherein the fastener comprises: the base plate is used for being adhered to the tooth surface and a plurality of boss structures fixed on the base plate; the top width of the boss structure is larger than the width of the side part of the boss structure, the correction wire is provided with a curved inverted concave structure, and the side part of the inverted concave structure is tightly abutted against the side part of the boss.

8. The orthodontic appliance of claim 1, wherein the fastener comprises: the bottom plate is used for being adhered to the tooth surface, and the matching piece is used for being matched and connected with the correcting wire; the fitting piece is provided with a groove in a through groove shape, and the correction wire is provided with a long strip part matched with the groove; the long strip portion is buckled in the groove.

9. The orthodontic appliance of claim 3, wherein the undercut structure of the wire is further provided with one or more protruding structures, the side of the fastener is further provided with protruding engagement grooves matching with the protruding structures, and the number of the protruding engagement grooves corresponds to the number of the protruding structures; the protruding structure is clamped in the protruding matching groove.

10. The orthodontic appliance of claim 6, wherein the left side, the right side and the front side of the engaging member are respectively provided with a protrusion engaging groove, and the corresponding positions of the orthodontic wire are provided with protrusion structures; the three protruding structures are respectively clamped in the three protruding matching grooves.

11. The orthodontic appliance of claim 7, wherein the base plate has three boss structures, the boss structures being triangularly disposed; the two ends of the inverted concave structure are respectively abutted against the inner sides of the two boss structures, and the middle of the inverted concave structure is abutted against the outer side of the other boss structure.

12. The orthodontic appliance of claim 8, wherein the elongated bar is further fixedly provided at each end with a snap ring having an outer diameter greater than an inner diameter of the slot, the snap rings abutting against the respective ends of the slot.

13. The orthodontic appliance of claim 5, wherein the wire includes an anterior segment and a posterior segment; the other side of the rear tooth section of the orthodontic wire, which is opposite to the buckle piece, is provided with a wrapping part which extends outwards, and the shape of the wrapping part is suitable for covering and wrapping the side part of the tooth.

14. The orthodontic appliance of claim 1, wherein the curved structure comprises: shoe-shaped curve, vertical opening curve, vertical closing curve, vertical opening curve with a ring, vertical closing curve with a ring, horizontal curve with a ring, gate-shaped curve, omega curve and small circle curve.

15. The orthodontic appliance of claim 1 or 14, wherein the wire segment between two adjacent fixtures is provided with a plurality of single-curved structures, or a plurality of combined double-curved structures including any two single-curved structures, or a plurality of combined multi-curved structures including any plurality of single-curved structures.

16. The orthodontic appliance of claim 1, further comprising a cross palatal bar; the two end parts of the cross palate rod are connected with the correction wires, and the cross palate rod and the correction wires are fixedly connected or integrally formed.

17. The orthodontic appliance of claim 16, wherein the palatal bar or the wire is further provided with a hook or a hitch interface.

18. The orthodontic appliance of claim 1, further comprising an expander; and two ends of the arch expander are fixed on the correcting wire.

19. The orthodontic appliance of claim 1, further comprising a southern western arch; the two ends of the southern western arch are fixed on the correction wires.

20. The orthodontic appliance of claim 1, further comprising a tongue tag or stop; the tongue thorn or the tongue block is connected with the correcting wire.

21. The orthodontic appliance of claim 1, wherein the wire is of a dual-rail construction comprising: lingual and buccal rails; the end parts of the lingual side rails are connected with the end parts of the buccal side rails, the lingual side rails are fixed on lingual sides of part of teeth or all teeth, and the buccal side rails are fixed on buccal sides of posterior teeth part and cuspid teeth part or buccal sides of all teeth, so that the lingual side rails and the buccal side rails jointly wrap tooth segments to be corrected.

22. The orthodontic appliance of claim 1, wherein the wire is any one of a titanium-based alloy, a nickel-based alloy, and a ferromanganese alloy.

23. The orthodontic appliance of claim 1, wherein the cross-sectional shape of the wire is any one of circular, oval, horseshoe, square, polygonal, triangular, or a combination of any two or more thereof.

24. The orthodontic appliance of claim 1 wherein the fastener is in the shape of any one of a sphere, an oval, a half-heart, a triangle, or a combination of any two or more thereof.

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