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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 1979
Filed:
Sep. 12, 1977
Frank R Miller, Azusa, CA (US);
Craig A Andreiko, Pasadena, CA (US);
Kenneth W Premo, Fullerton, CA (US);
American Hospital Supply Corporation, Evanston, IL (US);
Abstract
Attachment of an orthodontic appliance by direct bonding to a tooth utilizing a composite base with a porous tooth-abutting face and various methods for making the device, such as casting as a unitary structure, or forming the composite base by rolling a mesh, in strip form, so as to form flats on at least one surface of the mesh where the mesh is to be in contact with a solid base portion, then bonding the mesh to the base. In the latter embodiment, the metal base is a metal foil to which the appliance is attached and the mesh and foil form a composite strip, from which individual composite pads are formed.