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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 1991
Filed:
Sep. 08, 1989
James D Cleary, St. Paul, MN (US);
Robert P Eckert, St. Paul, MN (US);
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Abstract
An instrument for debonding orthodontic brackets from teeth has a pair of arms with pulling sections adapted to engage the bracket behind occlusal and gingival tie wings. The arms are connected to a lever, and movement of the lever enables the arms to simultaneously exert a pulling force on both of the wings along substantially their entire mesial-distal width in order to lift the bracket from the tooth in straight-line fashion. A pair of reaction supports for engagement with the tooth during the debonding operation extend in an occlusal-gingival direction and have a length less than the occlusal-gingival height of the bracket so that the instrument can be rocked to ensure that the pulling sections are in firm contact with the bracket during the time that the bracket is debonded from the tooth.