Rmo, Inc.

Leon W Laub

Jeffrey Allen Smith

Nam Trinh

Antoun Halim Zakhem

Dennis Jay Dupray

Christophe Gualano

Aldo Macchi

Martin Randolph

Robert C Wilson

Robert W Wilson

Cassius Hodson

Lingual tube

An orthodontic appliance includes features for reducing friction between an interior of an archwire slot portion of the appliance and an archwire to be placed within the archwire slot. Other embodiments include a rounded exterior occlusal surface. Embodiments further include one or more receptacles for receiving an installation tool.

Reduced-friction buccal tube and method of use

An orthodontic bracket is disclosed having three archwire retention channels in the mesial-distal directions, a central channel and two side channels. The two side channels each include a pair of spaced apart inverted archwire retaining regions having a recess that opens generally towards the bracket base. Each such recess is for grasping or holding an archwire therein. Other aspects are directed to a self ligating orthodontic bracket system that includes a rotatable member for securing an archwire within a slot of a bracket; embodiments that include an orthodontic appliance and method of producing and using the same, and preferably employed in a lingual orthodontic system, that includes friction reducing features between an interior of an archwire slot portion of the appliance and an archwire placed within the archwire slot.

Customized orthodontic appliance method and system

Orthodontic bracket

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Fort Collins, CO, United States of America

Leon W Laub