2017-02-23

The force systems during multiband treatment are influenced by the selection of the bracket-archwire combinations. Resin models replicated from casts reflecting the pretreatment intraoral situation of a patient's mandible were used to explore how different bracket systems and archwire qualities would affect the force systems developing during simulated orthodontic leveling of several malaligned teeth.

J Orofac Orthop. 2015 Mar  [Article in English, German]

Perrey W¹, Konermann A, Keilig L