Medical Device
orthodontic appliance
Subclass of:
Orthodontics speciality
Definitions related to orthodontic appliances:
  • Appliance which is used for the correction, guidance or adjustment of malformed, injured or diseased dentofacial structure; including those which reposition dental bones.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • Devices used for influencing tooth position. Orthodontic appliances may be classified as fixed or removable, active or retaining, and intraoral or extraoral. (Boucher's Clinical Dental Terminology, 4th ed, p19)
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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