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The effectiveness of Hawley and vacuum-formed retainer usage protocols on the stability of fixed orthodontic treatment results


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Comparisons of gender and age at debonding, molar relationships and ANB° before orthodontic treatment, and changes in arch dimensions with active orthodontic treatment between the groups.

Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 p-value
N (%), median (min, max) or mean ± SD) N (%), median (min, max) or mean ± SD) N (%), median (min, max) or mean ± SD) N (%), median (min, max) or mean ± SD)
Gender Female 12 (100%) 5 (41.7%) 11 (84.6%) 10 (66.7%) 0.009 *,a
Male 0 (0%) 7 (58.3%) 2 (15.4%) 5 (33.3%)
Molar relationship Class I 9 (75%) 9 (75%) 8 (61.5%) 7 (46.7%) 0.198 a
End-to-end 3 (25%) 2 (16.7%) 3 (23.1%) 8 (53.3%)
Class II 0 (0%) 1 (8.3%) 2 (15.4%) 0 (0%)
Age (years) 16.15 (14.1, 19.9) 16.1 (14.1, 18) 17 (15.3, 19.1) 17.25 (14, 23) 0.162 b
ANB° 3.15° (0.7°, 4.2°) 4.9° (1.6, 5.7) 3.8 (1, 5.1) 3 (0.9, 7) 0.113 b
Little (mm) (T1-T0) Maxilla -7.86 (-14.98,-4.62) -8.97 (-14.6,-2.9) -8.05 (-13.14,-3.09) -8.21 (-16.8, -6.13) 0.885 b
Mandible -6.58±2.43 -6.81±3.08 -8.25±3.40 -7.40±3.08 0.521 c
Intercanine width (mm) (T1-T0) Maxilla 0.52 (-4.13, 5.33) 0.51 (-4.42,6.98) 1.54 (-1.75, 2.74) 0.78 (-2.45, 4.27) 0.957 b
Mandible 0.44±1.20 1.07±1.67 1.11±1.66 0.97±1.21 0.640 c
Intermolar width (mm) (T1-T0) Maxilla 0.18 (-2.73, 4.6) 1.73 (-1.5, 4.6) 0.99 (-0.71, 6.32) 0.12 (-1.01, 5.4) 0.175 b
Mandible -0.01±1.60 1.96±1.65 0.24±1.83 1.32±2.44 0.051 c
Arch length (mm) (T1-T0) Maxilla 2.08±2.10 1.90±2.65 2.12±3.16 2.31±2.96 0.986 c
Mandible 2.64±1.89 2.81±4.71 2.14±3.64 3.61±3.26 0.732 c
Overjet (mm) (T1-T0) -0.73±1.24 -0.63±1.24 -0.27±1.35 -1.03±1.12 0.456 c
Overbite (mm) (T1-T0) -0.66±1.13 -1.53±1.27 -1.00±1.38 -1.29±1.27 0.372 c

Intragroup and intergroup arch measurement changes occurred from debonding (T1) to 12th month (T3), and from sixth (T2) to 12th month (T3 of retention, and their significances.

Maxilla Mandible Inter-arch
Little (mm) (mean±SD) Intercanine width (mm) (mean±SD) Intermolar width (mm) (mean±SD) Arch length (mm) (mean±SD) Little (mm) (mean±SD) Intercanine width (mm) (mean±SD) Intermolar width (mm) (mean±SD) Arch Length (mm) (mean±SD) Overjet (mm) (mean±SD) Overbite (mm) (mean±SD)
Group 1 (N=12) T3-T2 0.30±0.27 0.03±0.30 0.01±0.18 0.03±0.43 0.31±0.45 -0.05±0.20 0.04±0.11 0.17±0.84 -0.18±0.49 0.02±0.41
P 0.172 a 1.000 a 1.000 a 1.000 a 0.212 a 1.000 a 1.000 a 1.000 a 0.482 a 1.000 a
T3-T1 1.02±0.84 0.91±0.64 0.71±0.61 0.15±0.69 1.10±0.92 -0.14±0.51 0.45±0.58 -0.18±0.95 0.08±0.63 0.35±0.47
P <0.001 ****,a 1.000 a 0.001 ***,a 1.000 a <0.001 ****,a 1.000 a 0.347 a 1.000 a 1.000 a 0.121 a
Group 2 (N=12) T3-T2 0.41±0.43 -0.38±0.58 0.03±0.46 -0.12±0.5 0.80±0.58 -0.08±0.31 0.08±0.40 -0.25±0.62 -0.10±0.42 0.14±0.39
P 0.028 *,a 0.178 a 1.000 a 1.000 a <0.001 ****,a 1.000 a 1.000 a 0.890 a 1.000 a 0.884 a
T3-T1 0.81±0.76 -0.17±0.84 0.25±0.73 -0.11±1.05 1.17±0.79 -0.11±0.61 0.09±0.79 -0.30±0.82 -0.36±0.90 0.23±0.58
P 0.001 ***,a 1.000 a 0.569 a 1.000 a <0.001 ****,a 1.000 a 1.000 a 1.000 a 0.213 a 0.557 a
Group 3 (N=13) T3-T2 0.23±0.66 0.39±0.94 0.51±1.00 0.44±0.88 0.27±0.37 -0.17±0.59 0.46±0.95 0.11±0.95 -0.30±0.54 -0.24±0.50
P 0.371 a 0.134 a 0.010 **,a 0.024 *,a 0.287 a 0.409 a 0.027 *,a 1.000 a 0.048 *,a 0.172 a
T3-T1 0.62±0.55 0.21±0.60 0.36±0.71 0.44±1.69 0.91±0.66 0.19±0.76 0.82±1.42 0.60±2.45 -0.32±0.53 0.15±0.60
P 0.010 **,a 0.919 a 0.165 0.579 0.001 ***,a 0.805 a 0.011 *,a 0.519 a 0.289 1.000 a
Group 4 (N=15) T3-T2 0.34±0.62 0.36±0.71 0.14±0.42 0.00±0.37 0.59±0.77 0.06±0.42 0.34±0.62 -0.05±0.83 0.12±0.29 -0.04±0.45
P 0.048*,a 1.000 a 1.000 a 1.000 a 0.001 ***,a 1.000 a 0.120 a 1.000 a 0.936 a 1.000 a
T3-T1 0.76±0.73 -0.03±0.80 0.18±0.55 0.20±1.09 1.10±0.91 0.07±0.50 0.25±0.86 -0.25±1.38 0.19±0.59 0.22±0.64
P 0.001 ***,a 1.000 a 0.890 a 1.000 a <0.001 ****,a 1.000 a 0.945 a 1.000 a 0.852 a 0.453 a
Intergroup comparison (p-value) T3-T2 0.897 b 0.016 *,b (2-3; p=0.008 ** ) 0.286 b 0.306 d 0.119 b 0.651 b 0.298 b 0.494 b 0.092 c 0.206 c
T3-T1 0.604 c 0.599 c 0.196 c 0.399 b 0.875 c 0.481 c 0.575 b 0.727 b 0.076 b 0.527 b

Arch measurements at debonding (T1), after six month full-time retention (T2), measurement changes from T1 to T2, comparisons of the changes between Hawley and vacuum-formed retainer groups.

HAWLEY (N=26) P VACUUM-FORMED RETAINER (N=32) P Intergroup comparisonP
T1 Mean ± SD or median (min, max) T2 Mean ± SD or median (min, max) T2-T1 Mean ± SD or median (min, max) T1 Mean ± SD or median (min, max) T2 Mean ± SD or median (min, max) T2-T1 Mean ± SD or median (min, max)
Maxilla Little (mm) 0 (0,0) 0.44 (0, 2.08) 0.44 (0, 2.08) <0.001 ****,a 0 (0,0) 0.05 (0, 2.3) 0.05 (0, 2.3) <0.001 ****,a 0.225 c
Intercanine width (mm) 36±2.17 36.16±2.14 0.17±0.72 0.253 b 35.07 (31.9, 38.08) 34.94 (31.56, 38.86) 0 (-2.78, 0.78) 0.414 a 0.081 c
Intermolar width (mm) 51.29 (43.69, 59.20) 51.83 (45.10, 59.28) 0.32 (-0.57, 1.82) <0.001 ****,a 51.12 (45.75, 58.06) 51.31 (44.82, 58.06) 0 (-1.65, 1.25) 0.679 a <0.001 ****,c
Arch Length (mm) 71.83±4.00 71.91±3.96 0.77±0.90 0.663 b 70.00 (62.76, 78.30) 70.18 (62.8, 77.8) 0.01 (-1.8, 3.26) 0.940 a 0.969 c
Mandible Little (mm) 0 (0,0) 0.46 (0, 2.64) 0.46 (0, 2.64) <0.001 ****,a 0 (0, 1.36) 0.39 (0, 1.79) 0.37 (0, 1.61) <0.001 ****,a 0.703 c
Intercanine width (mm) 27.53±1.76 27.52±1.72 -0.02±0.52 0.884 b 26.85±1.41 27.02±1.42 0.16±0.43 0.039 *,b 0.156 d
Intermolar width (mm) 44.64±2.69 44.88±2.62 0.24±0.61 0.057 b 44.76 (38.45, 52.05) 44.62 (38.88, 52.05) 0.04 (-1.11, 1.90) 0.204 a 0.334 c
Arch Length (mm) 61.93±3.61 61.70±3.83 -0.23±0.90 0.204 b 61.29 (52.88, 66.74) 60.77 (52.88, 66.17) 0.10 (-1.74, 5.79) 0.926 a 0.260 c
Inter-arch Overjet (mm) 2.27±0.88 2.30±0.73 0.04±0.63 0.776 b 2.16±0.72 2.18±0.72 0.02±0.48 0.825 b 0.910 d
Overbite (mm) 2.36±0.73 2.59±0.76 0.23±0.56 0.047 *,b 2.48±0.71 2.79±0.65 0.31±0.49 0.001 ***,b 0.571 d
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