Sentence examples for wire retainers from inspiring English sources

The majority of the orthodontists (76.5%) adjusted the arch wire retainers clinically.

The results of this study showed that when the fiber-reinforced composite retainers and spiral wire retainers were compared, less detrimental side effects were observed after 6 months in the spiral wire retainers.

In this study, the stainless steel wire retainers showed higher bond strength compared to the FRC retainers.

Multi-stranded wire retainers were fabricated from a 0.0175-in multi-stranded stainless steel wire and were bonded to the lingual surfaces of the anterior teeth.

This might be attributed to the fact that fiber-reinforced composites occupy a wider span on the lingual surface of the teeth compared to spiral wire retainers.

Although clinical follow-up studies of these fixed retainers are few, direct-bonded multi-stranded wire retainers have proved their reliability in retention of the mandibular anterior teeth after orthodontic treatments[9, 10].

In an in vitro study, Foek et al.[22] compared the bond strength of the stainless steel wire retainer with various FRC retainers.

The results showed that the reliability with the multi-stranded wire retainer was comparable to the ribbon retainer in both arches.

It was revealed that the mean survival of the flexible spiral wire retainer was 15.34 ± 0.47 and 15.60 ± 0.42 months in the maxillary and mandibular arches, respectively.

This prospective randomized clinical study aimed to compare the mean survival time and the failure rate of two fixing methods: the flexible spiral wire retainer and the ribbon reinforced retainer.

Thirty patients were randomly divided into two groups to receive either a fiber-reinforced composite retainer or a spiral wire retainer extended on the lingual surfaces of both maxillary and mandibular arches from canine to canine.