3M Unitek Safety Lingual Bonding Cleat
A bondable lingual cleat attached directly to the tooth surface, providing a secure engagement point for elastics without requiring a band.
The Unitek Safety Lingual Bonding Cleat is a small attachment bonded directly onto the lingual surface of a tooth, giving the clinician an engagement point for elastics or ligatures on teeth that are bonded with a bracket rather than fitted with a band. Being a bondable rather than a weldable or bandable attachment, this cleat suits the many modern treatment plans that rely primarily on bonded brackets across the arch, offering a lingual anchorage option without needing to place a full band purely to gain a lingual attachment point.
Cleats of this type are used wherever the treatment mechanics call for elastic engagement from the tongue-facing side of a tooth, a requirement that can arise in various anchorage strategies or corrective elastic wear patterns during active treatment. Being described as a safety design suggests the cleat is shaped or finished with attention to reducing sharp edges or points that could otherwise catch on soft tissue during normal oral function.
This product is transitioning from the Unitek Safety Lingual Bonding Cleat name to the Solventum Bondable Lingual Cleat line, and it remains a routine bonding accessory for practices using lingual elastic mechanics on bonded cases.
