REMOVABLE RETAINER AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR

Proposed is a removable retainer including a body part that is formed of a shape memory alloy material and has a front surface in close contact with the outer tooth surface of each tooth, and a fixing part coupled to the body part and fixing the body part, wherein the body part includes a curved pro...

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Main Authors KIM, Seok Jun, JEON, Jae Ho
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 03.08.2023
Subjects
APPARATUS OR METHODS FOR ORAL OR DENTAL HYGIENE
DENTISTRY
HUMAN NECESSITIES
HYGIENE
MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE
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Summary:Proposed is a removable retainer including a body part that is formed of a shape memory alloy material and has a front surface in close contact with the outer tooth surface of each tooth, and a fixing part coupled to the body part and fixing the body part, wherein the body part includes a curved protrusion part formed to protrude toward an interdental space to be inserted into the interdental space, and multiple support parts. A manufacturing method of the removable retainer includes a step of acquiring three-dimensional scanning data, a data processing step of generating first and second processing lines, a laser cutting step of laser cutting a flat plate-shaped base material to form a body-part forming part, a shape processing step of cutting the body-part forming part, and a fixing part coupling step of coupling the manufactured body part and the manufactured fixing part to each other.
Bibliography:Application Number: US202118009330