Comparative assessment of forces generated during simulated alignment with self-ligating and conventional brackets

European Journal of Orthodontics

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 590-595

  Pandis, Nikolaos ^a   Eliades, Theodore ^b   Bourauel, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENTAL CARE; HUMAN; ORTHODONTIC DEVICE; PERIODONTAL DISEASE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENTAL MODELS; DENTAL STRESS ANALYSIS; HUMANS; ORTHODONTIC BRACKETS; ORTHODONTIC WIRES; TOOTH MOVEMENT;

EID: 77449119510     PISSN: 01415387     EISSN: 14602210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ejo/cjn107     Document Type: Article

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