Lightforce Orthodontics Inc.

Oisin Duggan

Christina Bonebreak Jackson

Celestino Nobrega

Alfred Charles Griffin, Iii

Kelsey A Fafara

Dylan Winchell

Samuel VanNoy

Embodiments relate to the methodology of direct manufacture of a customized labial/lingual orthodontic tube by using a ceramic slurry-based additive manufacturing (AM) technology. For example, a method of manufacturing customized ceramic labial/lingual orthodontic tubes by additive manufacturing may comprise measuring dentition data of a profile of teeth of a patient, based on the dentition data, creating a three-dimensional computer-assisted design (3D CAD) model of the patient's teeth, and saving the 3D CAD model, designing a virtual 3D CAD tube structure model for a single labial or lingual tube structure based upon said 3D CAD model, importing data related to the 3D CAD tube structure model into an additive manufacturing machine, and directly producing the tube with the additive manufacturing machine by layer manufacturing from an inorganic material including at least one of a ceramic, a polymer-derived ceramic, and a polymer-derived metal.

Manufacture of patient-specific orthodontic tube

Door for orthodontic bracket

Orthodontic bracket with door

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Somerville, MA, United States of America

Oisin Duggan