Dental Materials
Volume 24, Issue 8 , Pages 1095-1101 , August 2008

Fatigue failure of as-received and retrieved NiTi orthodontic archwires

  • C. Bourauel

      Affiliations

    • Cendres+Métaux Endowed Chair of Oral Technology, School of Dentistry, Bonn University, Germany
    • ,
  • W. Scharold

      Affiliations

    • Department of Orthodontics, School of Dentistry, Bonn University, Germany
    • ,
  • A. Jäger

      Affiliations

    • Department of Orthodontics, School of Dentistry, Bonn University, Germany
    • ,
  • T. Eliades

      Affiliations

    • Department of Orthodontics, School of Dentistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Orthodontics, School of Dentistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 57 Agnoston Hiroon Street, Nea Ionia 14231, Greece.

Received 4 October 2007 ,Revised 17 December 2007 ,Accepted 23 December 2007.

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☆ This paper was based on the Dr. Med. Dent. thesis of the late W. Scharold.

PII: S0109-5641(08)00004-3

doi: 10.1016/j.dental.2007.12.007

Dental Materials
Volume 24, Issue 8 , Pages 1095-1101 , August 2008

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