background: there have been numerous researches on elastomeric ligatures, but clinical conditions in different stages of treatment are not exactly similar to laboratory conditions. the aim of this in vitro study was to simulate clinical conditions and evaluate the effect of three stretching patterns on the amount of force, tensile strength (ts) and extension to ts of the elastomers during 8 wee...

objectives: the aim of this study was to assess and compare the characteristics of commonly used initial archwires by their load deflection graphs. materials and methods : this study tested three wire designs namely copper nickel titanium (cnt), nickel titanium (niti), and multi-strand niti (msnt) archwires engaged in passive self-ligating (psl) brackets, active self-ligating (asl) brackets or ...

On the basis of 102 assigned frequencies to in plane vibrations of pyrimidine, pyrimidine-2-d2, pyrimidine-2, 5-d2, pyrimidine-4,6-d2, pyrimidine-2,4,6-d3 and pyrimidine-d4, 35 valance force field constants including 14 principals and 21 interaction force constants are calculated. New assignments are suggested for n<su...

OBJECTIVE To find out if it is possible to control maxillary anterior teeth in sagittal and vertical plane during retraction by altering the vertical levels of force application in the posterior region, i.e. identifying the type of movement of the maxillary anterior teeth which occurs when force would be applied from four different levels i.e. High, Medium, and Low pull Implants and from a conv...