Progress in Orthodontics

Table 1 Descriptive data of patients participated in this study

From: Clinical comparison between Multi-Stranded Wires and Single strand Ribbon wires used for lingual fixed retainers

Variable		Twisted wire	Ribbon Wire	P value
Sex	Male	55 (39.99%)	44 (39.3%)	0.92
Sex	Female	83 (60.1%)	68 (60.7%)	0.92
Age (mean ± SD)		21.08 ± 4.09	19.70 ± 4.68	0.04

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