Retrocline

Quick meaning: Retrocline is a verb meaning (intransitive, dentistry) Of teeth, to lean backward.

Meaning

(intransitive, dentistry) Of teeth, to lean backward.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, dentistry) To cause (teeth) to lean backward.

Example Sentences

These curves do have a tendency to procline the incisors so the wires are often tied back […] to maintain the arch length and minimise incisor proclination. Alternatively, torque can be placed in the archwire to retrocline the incisors.

In Class II cases the maxillary incisors retrocline and the eruption of teeth in the maxillary buccal segments is directed distally during treatment. In the mandibular arch the lower incisors tend to procline and the teeth in the buccal segments erupt in a more mesial direction.

Word Forms

• retroclines
• retroclining
• retroclined

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