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Perialveolar wiring
The use of wires to fix a splint to the mandible. The wires are passed through the alveolar process from the buccal plate to the palate.
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Ivy loop wiring
The placement of wire around adjacent teeth to provide an attachment site for rubber bands.
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Gilmer wiring
Wiring of single opposed teeth by use of wire passed circumferentially around the two teeth and the ends twisted together. The twisted ends are placed where they will not irritate adjacent soft tissues. This procedure is used to produce intermaxillary fixation.
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Craniofacial suspension wiring
Wiring using bones not contiguous with the oral cavity for attachment of wires that lead from those bones to the fractured jaw segments.
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Continuous loop wiring
The forming of wire loops on both mandibular and maxillary teeth to provide attachment sites for rubber bands. These are used in treating fractures of the mandible.
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Circumferential wiring
A method of treating a fractured mandible by passing wires around the bone and a splint in the oral cavity.
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Wire localization
The insertion of a radiographically guided, thin metal wire into a small suspicious lesion to direct the surgeon to the lesion making it easier to biopsy or remove.
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Wired
Slang for tense and anxious, especially when the condition is caused by the effect of a psychoactive drug.
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Separating wire
A brass wire used in dentistry to separate teeth before banding them.
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Arch wire
A cable, usually made of metal, that is used to apply tension to the teeth in orthodontics.
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