A new type ceramic bracket for suppression of resin remaining in debonding

A new type of ceramic bracket was prepared to minimize the destruction at the bracket-resin interface and to suppress resin remaining on the tooth surface in debonding. The brackets were of a chemical bonding type, and had a box-formed cavity in the bracket base to hold resin, a 0.018 inch slot, and twin-type wings. Impact strengths and debonding aspects of the residual resin were studied. The impact strengths of the brackets seemed to exceed the desired level, compared to other control ceramic brackets or metal brackets. A resin remaining ratio (RRR) was adopted as the quantitative evaluation for the residual resin condition. Mean RRR's of the brackets were about 10%, which was a very low value in comparison to the other brackets.