Have you been wearing your retainer? It's a question countless parents ask of their children post-braces. Now researchers are getting serious about the question. Have you been wearing your retainer?

Medline, PubMed, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, LILACS and BBO databases with no language restrictions; unpublished literature was searched in Proquest Dissertations and Theses ...

"Vivera retainers were created to fit the needs of patients' busy lifestyles," said Rick Matty, general manager, new products at Align Technology in a press release. "Not only do patients get the ...

Data sources The Cochrane Oral Health Group's Trials Register, The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), Medline and Embase were searched. Several journals were searched by hand ...

Retainers are the unsung heroes of orthodontic treatment, keeping smiles in place long after braces or aligners come off. Orthodontists now face multiple production paths — manufacturer-supplied, ...

Insufficient cleaning could allow build-up of microbes on orthodontic retainers, researchers have found. Researchers looked at the types of microbes which live on retainers. This study found ...