Abstract: An orthodontic bracket for straightening a tooth, has a base member adapted for attachment to the tooth to be straightened, and has a pair of spaced-apart upstanding walls each of which is provided with a slot for receiving a brace arch wire. The upstanding walls have retainer means which are engageable with a retainer band to hold in place the arch wire. In one embodiment, one of the slots in one wall has a ridge or narrowed portion on its bottom surface, which portion is so located with respect to the side faces of the wall that it facilitates any required bending of the arch wire. The elastic arch wire that is associated with the bracket can be easily bent over the ridge or narrowed portion due to the increased height provided by the same, for the purpose of applying a rotating force to the tooth to which the bracket is attached.

Abstract: An orthodontic bracket apparatus for attachment to a tooth, consisting of a flexible attachment pad having dimensions that are commensurate with a designated area of the tooth to which the apparatus is to be secured. The apparatus has a pair of brackets permanently mounted on adjoining areas at one side of the pad in spaced relation to each other, such brackets being maintained in their attached positions and separated by an elongate, narrow hinge portion of the pad, which portion is free from direct attachment to the brackets. The narrow hinge portion of the ductile pad enables an initial easy, relative arcuate adjusting movement of the brackets to be effected with respect to each other, thereby to obtain a closer fit of the entire pad to the surface contours of the tooth which is to have the apparatus affixed to its surface.

Abstract: An orthodontic bracket apparatus for attachment to a tooth, consisting of a flexible attachment pad having dimensions that are commensurate with a designated area of the tooth to which the apparatus is to be secured. The apparatus has a pair of brackets permanently mounted on adjoining areas at one side of the pad in spaced relation to each other, such brackets being maintained in their attached positions and separated by an elongate, narrow hinge portion of the pad, which portion is free from direct attachment to the brackets. The narrow hinge portion of the ductile pad enables an initial easy, relative arcuate adjusting movement of the brackets to be effected with respect to each other, thereby to obtain a closer fit of the entire pad to the surface contours of the tooth which is to have the apparatus affixed to its surface.

Abstract: A health-care glove constituted of thin elastic rubber-like material and having a thumb member at one side edge and a pinkie member at the opposite side edge. The glove has visual indicia for indicating to the user, the location of the thumb member so as to enable him to initially pick up the glove and easily apply it onto his hand, with the thumb member and pinkie member in the proper relative positions.

Abstract: A health-care glove constituted of thin elastic rubber-like material and having a thumb at one side edge and a pinkie at the opposite side edge. The glove has distinctive visual indicia for immediately indicating to the user, the location of the thumb thereby to enable him to initially pick up the glove and easily apply it onto his hand with the thumb and pinkie in the proper relative sense.

Abstract: An apparatus and method of implanting hair or hair-like strands in areas of the skin of animate beings, comprising a unique fabricated anchorage piece and a novel process for placing the same in the skin, utilizing a hypodermic needle having a grooved barrel and tip portion. The process or method comprises piercing the skin with the assemblage of needle and anchorage member carried thereby, and then advancing the member by means of a suitable plunger in the needle, such that the member is thrust below the surface of the skin while the needle tip is still inserted. The needle is then withdrawn, whereas the anchorage member remains embedded. Strands of hair or hair-like material tied or otherwise secured to the anchorage member emanate from the puncture in the skin created by the needle, thereby providing an especially natural and pleasing appearance not obtainable with most prior methods and procedures of hair replacement.

Abstract: A health-care glove constituted of thin elastic rubber-like material and having a thumb member at one side edge and a pinkie member at the opposite side edge. The glove has visual indicia for indicating to the user, the location of the thumb member so as to enable him to initially pick up the glove and easily apply it onto his hand, with the thumb member and pinkie member in the proper relative positions.