practical number particularly for brackets of less often used appliance prescriptions according to a method of the present invention brackets 30 are loaded onto a set up tray 10 from the carriers 21 illustrated as carriers and 21 a and 21 b by personnel at a treating orthodontic practitioner 39 s office with the use of an organizer 40 illustrated in fig3 also according to the present invention the organizer 40 includes an organizer tray 41 and a storage base 42 both the organizer tray 41 and storage base 42 are each preferably made of a respective integral piece of molded plastic although metal or other materials may be used the organizer tray 41 has a four sided set up tray support or set up tray receiving recess 43 formed at its center and a plurality of appliance holders 44 the holders are in the form of three sided open ended carrier receiving recesses or slots half of which are formed along one side of the organizer tray 41 and half formed along the opposite side of the organizer tray 41 the holders 44 are configured to hold the appliances such as brackets 30 preferably in packages of appliances such as the carriers 21 the number of the holders 44 is equal to the maximum number of brackets.