Bending Art System - State of the art and first impressions

The Bending Art System is the first computer aided device for bending individual orthodontic archwires. It consists of three components: a(n) (intraoral) stereoscopic camera, a computer program and a wire bending unit. Thus, it allows to manufacture individual archwires with 1st, 2nd and 3rd order bends, which have proven to be very accurate. After exact registration of the bracket position and its confirmation by the user the resulting occlusal scans of the maxillary and mandibular dental arches are displayed on the computer monitor. The orthodontist then determines tooth by tooth the desired three dimensional tooth position which in turn produces the appropriate wire design. Parole chiave: Bending Art System, computer aided design, computer aided manufacturing, orthodontic wire bending, individual archwires