TY - BOOK AU - Alaa Fraeg Othman Hasanain AU - Ahmed Abdelsalam Eid , AU - Fouad Aly Elsharaby , TI - Mechanical properties of orthodontic nickel-titanium open coil springs / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Alaa Fraeg Othman Hasanain , KW - Mechanical KW - Nickel-titanium KW - Orthodontic N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Oral and Dental Medicine - Department of Orthodontics; Issued also as CD N2 - The aim of this study was to compare and quantify the mechanical properties of commercially available nickel-titanium open coil springs supplied by five different companies. Sixteen groups of springs, each comprised ten springs (totally 160 springs) from five manufactures were tested 4 times over a 4 week period. A universal testing machine was used to measure the force characteristics when the springs were compressed to half of their original length and then when gradually allowed to decompress UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -