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Retainers.

Active and passive retainers, from Hawley to fixed lingual to invisible, made to your Rx.

Removable, fixed or clear.

Retainers come in three families: removable designs built on the Hawley, fixed lingual retainers bonded to the anterior teeth, and clear retainers in Zendura. Removable designs can be passive, holding the result, or active, closing small spaces and correcting minor rotations during retention.

  • Circumferential designs that let the teeth settle
  • Fixed retainers ready to bond on the day of debond
  • Zendura .030 standard, with .040 on request
  • Acrylic colors and designs from our standard range
Invisible Retainers

What do retainers solve?

Retainers hold the result once active treatment ends and guard against anterior shifting after debond. Circumferential designs let the posterior teeth settle into occlusion, and spring designs correct minor rotations and close small diastemas without going back into brackets.

  • Anterior shifting after the braces come off
  • Posterior settling after extraction treatment
  • Minor rotations and small diastemas
  • Mild anterior relapse or crowding after treatment

Which retainer fits the case?

Anchorage
Removable, clear coverage
Patient age
Any age
Correction
Retention after treatment
Compliance
Required, removable
Anchorage
Bonded, mesh pads
Patient age
Any age
Correction
Retention after treatment
Compliance
None, bonded
Anchorage
Bonded, composite pads
Patient age
Any age
Correction
Retention after treatment
Compliance
None, bonded
Anchorage
Removable, clear coverage
Patient age
Any age
Correction
Retention after treatment
Compliance
Required, removable
Anchorage
Removable, clear coverage
Patient age
Any age
Correction
Nighttime retention
Compliance
Required, removable
Anchorage
Removable, clasp-retained
Patient age
Any age
Correction
Minor tooth movement
Compliance
Required, removable
Anchorage
Removable, anterior segment
Patient age
Any age
Correction
Minor anterior alignment
Compliance
Required, removable
Anchorage
Removable, Adams clasps
Patient age
Any age
Correction
Minor tooth movement
Compliance
Required, removable
Anchorage
Removable, full-arch bow
Patient age
Any age
Correction
Retention with settling
Compliance
Required, removable
Anchorage
Removable, C-clasps on first molars
Patient age
Any age
Correction
Retention with a clear bow
Compliance
Required, removable
Anchorage
Removable, soldered clasps
Patient age
Any age
Correction
Retention after treatment
Compliance
Required, removable
Anchorage
Removable, soldered C clasps
Patient age
Any age
Correction
Retention after treatment
Compliance
Required, removable
Anchorage
Removable, C-clasps
Patient age
Any age
Correction
Retention after treatment
Compliance
Required, removable
Haas, top view Distal Jet, top view MARPE 4 eyelet, front view

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FAQ

Questions about retainers.

A fixed lingual retainer takes compliance out of anterior retention and can be bonded the day the braces come off. Removable designs depend on wear, but depending on the design they can let the bite settle or make small corrections.

Composite pads on each tooth are our standard, and they take round .028, braided or solid stainless wire. The mesh pad retainer uses a laser-welded, low-profile flat wire with less bulk and room to floss, but it can’t take braided wire.

Guardian® gives two, three or four sets plus a printed model your practice can reuse for in-house retainers. Invisible Retainers are the single-order option, with minor anterior corrections on request. IR Express is the clear retainer for digital cases on a five-day turnaround.

Five days from the day we receive the case to the day it’s delivered, for cases with the Rx and scans submitted digitally. Impression and stone model cases aren’t covered, and cases with pontics, bonded retainers or bite planes are excluded, so check the IR Express terms before you prescribe.

For Guardian® and IR Express, yes. Remove the archwires before the scan or impression and we remove the brackets digitally, and bracket carving is included in the IR Express price.

When you want the posterior teeth to settle, since the wire doesn’t cross the occlusion at the cuspids. The Wraparound Hawley runs .036 wire to the most posterior teeth with full palatal acrylic, the Soldered Labial Bow keeps Adams clasp retention, and the Specialty Wrap uses a clear labial bow.