RESEARCH ARTICLE
Clinical Variability in Arch Wires: A Preliminary Study Evaluating Mechanical and Surface Characteristics of Two Different Sized Rectangular Stainless Steel Wires
Alessandro Venab, Jason Carey*, a, Hisham Badawic
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2007Volume: 1
First Page: 13
Last Page: 22
Publisher ID: TOBEJ-1-13
DOI: 10.2174/1874120700701010013
Article History:
Received Date: 19/6/2007Revision Received Date: 24/7/2007
Acceptance Date: 25/7/2007
Electronic publication date: 3/8/2007
Collection year: 2007
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/), which permits unrestrictive use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Experimental characterization of arch wires has been performed in many previous studies; however with the advent of new arch wire materials being introduced, some new experimental methods and characterization are required. Since literature is available for comparison, this paper examines mechanical and physical characteristics of steel arch wires to quantify their variability in engineering terms. Furthermore, the effect of wire size on properties was evaluated using two of the most common wire sizes. Finally, manufacturing consistency was verified by testing samples from different lots.