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Participants
Start Date
September 1, 2019
Primary Completion Date
September 1, 2022
Study Completion Date
September 30, 2022
Computer Aided Design/ Computer Aided Manufacturing Retainers
Custom-bent fixed retainer wires from an in-office CAD/CAM system with FixR software and the BenderI machine (YOAT Corporation, Lynwood, WA). Dentaflex wires- round, 0.5mm in diameter, three-stranded Stainless Steel (Dentaurum GmbH \& Co., Ispringen, Germany)- were used for the CAD/CAM group
Lab-based Retainers
The lab group used the same type of wire as the CAD/CAM group but was manually bent by a lab technician
Chairside Retainers
The chairside group used three-stranded Stainless Steel, 0.974mm x 0.402 mm, flexible Ortho-FlexTech wires (Reliance, Itasca, IL)
Saint Louis University, St Louis
Nourhan M.Aly
OTHER