Sentence examples for retainer on the from inspiring English sources

Who ignored me and my crush except to write, for an end-of-summer skit, a sardonic verse about me losing my retainer on the trail.

Devotees of Trevor's slyly plotted fiction will guess early on that the addled local wanderer, Orpen Wren, once a retainer on the estate where Ellie and Florian have their meetings, will end up playing a key if inadvertent role in bringing matters to a crisis.

A smiling 21-year-old woman with a strong, sometimes scratchy voice, Ms. Ellison said there is nothing extraordinary about her accomplishments, whether it is piloting her wheelchair (as well as the cursor on her computer screen) by touching her tongue to a keypad in a retainer on the roof of her mouth, or being selected by her peers to address them on senior class day on June 7.

Most of the economists are on retainer one way or the other by the financial crowd who got us in trouble and are not a bit interested in the United States becoming competitive in globalization.

From the radiographic viewpoint, the effect of the retainers on the health of the periodontium was statistically insignificant and inconclusive.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical and radiographic effect of two commonly used fixed retainers on the health of the periodontium.

In this prospective clinical trial, the effect of two common types of fixed retainers on the health of the periodontium was evaluated.

In the non-surgical group, the retention options delivered were as follows: fixed (bonded) retainers on the lingual aspect of maxillary central incisors along with Hawley retainers (n = 2), Hawley retainers only (2), Hawley retainer and bonded lower retainer (2), Hawley retainers only (33), and tooth positioner followed by Hawley retainers (1).

Prolonged retention may pose increased risk to the periodontium and dental hard tissues; it is therefore important to investigate the implications of the long-term use of fixed and removable retainers on the supporting tissues [3, 9, 10].

It has been suggested that placing fixed orthodontic retainers on the maxillary arch poses more risks on the periodontal health, since the retainer has to be placed gingival enough to avoid premature occlusal contacts [15]; however, in the present study, there were no significant differences between the scores recorded for the maxillary arch between the baseline and after the 6-month follow-up.

Based on the presence of bonded buccal retainers on the mandibular first and second molars at two posttreatment timepoints (T1, T2), the subjects were allocated to the study-retention group (12 females, 18 males; mean age at T1, 15.2 years; SD, 1.6 years), and the control-nonretention group (16 females, 19 males; mean age at T1, 16.2 years; SD, 1.7 years) (Table 1).