Retention procedures for stabilising tooth position after treatment with orthodontic braces

Abstract

Retention procedures for stabilising tooth position after treatment with orthodontic braces.

An Alternative Retainer Design for Cleft Patients: The “Aesthetic” Retainer

“…The clinical effectiveness of different retainer designs has been subject to surprisingly few randomized controlled trials (Littlewood et al, 2006a(Littlewood et al, , 2006b. The available literature indicates that more settling, as measured by an increase in the number of occlusal contacts, is reported to occur with a Hawley-style retainer (Basciftci et al, 2007) than an Essix retainer (Sauget et al, 1997).…”

Tensile test and interface retention forces between wires and composites in lingual fixed retainers

“…The occurrence of failures in fixed retainers is highly variable [5][6][7], ranging from 31.7% to 5.9% [8][9][10][11][12][13]. Many studies in the literature have shown failures and unexpected tooth position changes, such as a torque difference between two adjacent mandibular incisors and an increased buccal inclination and movement of one mandibular canine [1].…”

“…The absence of sufficient research data for evidence-based guidelines and the need for randomized clinical and in vitro studies were highlighted by the Cochrane Review published in 2006 [5].…”

“…La revue Cochrane, en 2006[5], a bien mis en evidence l'insuffisance des donn ees de recherches, qui ne permettent pas l' elaboration de recommandations fond ees sur des preuves, et le besoin d'essais cliniques randomis es ainsi que des etudes in vitro. Nous avons donc d ecid e d' etudier l'interface[14,15] entre diff erents fils et composites et en particulier la force de r etention entre les fils et les composites en effectuant des tests de traction.…”

Anterior tooth wear and retention type until 5 years after orthodontic treatment

“…Present studies on the use of fixed retainers mainly concern the effectiveness, success and failure rate of a bonded retainer and oral hygiene aspects of different types of fixed retention. In the literature, there is one Cochrane review available summarizing the results of randomized and quasirandomized controlled trials on this topic [8]. The quality of trials on retention was not thorough enough for a true conclusion to be drawn.…”