"Orthodontic Appliances" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Devices used for influencing tooth position. Orthodontic appliances may be classified as fixed or removable, active or retaining, and intraoral or extraoral. (Boucher's Clinical Dental Terminology, 4th ed, p19)
| Descriptor ID |
D009967
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E06.658.453
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| Concept/Terms |
Orthodontic Appliances- Orthodontic Appliances
- Appliance, Orthodontic
- Appliances, Orthodontic
- Orthodontic Appliance
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2003 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Orthodontic Appliances" by people in Profiles.
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Oral Decontamination of Orthodontic Patients Using Photodynamic Therapy Mediated by Blue-Light Irradiation and Curcumin Associated with Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate. Photomed Laser Surg. 2016 Sep; 34(9):411-7.
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Stability of transverse expansion in the mandibular arch. Am J Orthod Dentofacial Orthop. 2003 Sep; 124(3):288-93.
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Essix plates for anterior anchorage reinforcement. J Clin Orthod. 2003 May; 37(5):252-4.
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Tweed-Merrifield sequential directional force treatment. Semin Orthod. 1996 Dec; 2(4):254-67.
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An evaluation of the shape-memory phenomenon of nickel-titanium orthodontic wires. Am J Orthod Dentofacial Orthop. 1990 Jul; 98(1):72-6.
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Diagnosis and force systems utilized in treating the maxillary first bicuspid and mandibular second bicuspid extraction case. J Charles H. Tweed Int Found. 1987 Apr; 15:19-58.