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straight-wire fixed orthodontic appliance

 
Dental Dictionary: straight-wire fixed orthodontic appliance

n

A variation of the edgewise appliance in which an effort is made to obviate the need for many arch-wire adjustments by reorientation of the arch-wire slots. The first such modifications were introduced by E.H. Angle; L.M. Andrews first proposed such variations in all planes of space.

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