Blue Elgiloy® Wire 14″
Elgiloy^® wire is a premium cobalt-base alloy, specially-fabricated wire in four tempers. All tempers have the unique capability of beginning as a “softer” easily handled wire. This wire can be used as is, or heat-treated, providing flexibility and control in force applications. Wire forms made from Elgiloy^® can be heat-treated, depending on the desired application. These wires are available in Penta-Morphic^®, natural, ideal and blank arches as well as straight lengths (round, square and rectangular).

FOUR TEMPERS:

Blue – Blue Elgiloy is initially the softest of the tempers. It can be welded with low heat, and soldered without embrittling. Blue Elgiloy is recommended when the wire to be used is over .020” (0.508mm) or when the wire requires considerable bending, welding or soldering. Excellent for edgewise arches, lingual arches, retainers and removables.

Yellow – Yellow Elgiloy is initially ductile and slightly harder than Blue. Using caution, you can spot-weld and solder to large Yellow Elgiloy wires, .021” x .025”; .030”; .036” (0.533mm x 0.635mm; 0.762mm; 0.914mm), without embrittling them. Some practitioners use Yellow as furnished, but it can be heat-treated if greater resiliency or spring performance is required. After heat-treating, Yellow can be adjusted slightly, but should not be adjusted sharply. It is excellent for flat wire techniques. Yellow Elgiloy is recommended where greater spring qualities are needed, than those provided by Blue Elgiloy.

Green – Green Elgiloy is initially semi-resilient and will temper comparable to high spring-tempered steel wires. It can be shaped easily with the fingers and can be plier-manipulated before heat-treating.

Red – Red Elgiloy is initially “hard” with exceptionally high spring qualities. It is not recommended for heat-treating. Use where adjustments will not be required after
heat-treating.

Features

• Superior physical properties
• Longer functioning as a resilient spring wire without distortion or fatigue
• Easy soldering without annealing
• Easy heat-treating to increase physical properties
• Simple electrolyte polishing

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Blue Elgiloy® Ideal
Elgiloy^® wire is a premium cobalt-base alloy, specially-fabricated wire in four tempers. All tempers have the unique capability of beginning as a “softer” easily handled wire. This wire can be used as is, or heat-treated, providing flexibility and control in force applications. Wire forms made from Elgiloy^® can be heat-treated, depending on the desired application. These wires are available in Penta-Morphic^®, natural, ideal and blank arches as well as straight lengths (round, square and rectangular).

FOUR TEMPERS:

Blue – Blue Elgiloy is initially the softest of the tempers. It can be welded with low heat, and soldered without embrittling. Blue Elgiloy is recommended when the wire to be used is over .020” (0.508mm) or when the wire requires considerable bending, welding or soldering. Excellent for edgewise arches, lingual arches, retainers and removables.

Yellow – Yellow Elgiloy is initially ductile and slightly harder than Blue. Using caution, you can spot-weld and solder to large Yellow Elgiloy wires, .021” x .025”; .030”; .036” (0.533mm x 0.635mm; 0.762mm; 0.914mm), without embrittling them. Some practitioners use Yellow as furnished, but it can be heat-treated if greater resiliency or spring performance is required. After heat-treating, Yellow can be adjusted slightly, but should not be adjusted sharply. It is excellent for flat wire techniques. Yellow Elgiloy is recommended where greater spring qualities are needed, than those provided by Blue Elgiloy.

Green – Green Elgiloy is initially semi-resilient and will temper comparable to high spring-tempered steel wires. It can be shaped easily with the fingers and can be plier-manipulated before heat-treating.

Red – Red Elgiloy is initially “hard” with exceptionally high spring qualities. It is not recommended for heat-treating. Use where adjustments will not be required after
heat-treating.

Features

• Superior physical properties
• Longer functioning as a resilient spring wire without distortion or fatigue
• Easy soldering without annealing
• Easy heat-treating to increase physical properties
• Simple electrolyte polishing

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Blue Elgiloy® Natural
Elgiloy^® wire is a premium cobalt-base alloy, specially-fabricated wire in four tempers. All tempers have the unique capability of beginning as a “softer” easily handled wire. This wire can be used as is, or heat-treated, providing flexibility and control in force applications. Wire forms made from Elgiloy^® can be heat-treated, depending on the desired application. These wires are available in Penta-Morphic^®, natural, ideal and blank arches as well as straight lengths (round, square and rectangular).

FOUR TEMPERS:

Blue – Blue Elgiloy is initially the softest of the tempers. It can be welded with low heat, and soldered without embrittling. Blue Elgiloy is recommended when the wire to be used is over .020” (0.508mm) or when the wire requires considerable bending, welding or soldering. Excellent for edgewise arches, lingual arches, retainers and removables.

Yellow – Yellow Elgiloy is initially ductile and slightly harder than Blue. Using caution, you can spot-weld and solder to large Yellow Elgiloy wires, .021” x .025”; .030”; .036” (0.533mm x 0.635mm; 0.762mm; 0.914mm), without embrittling them. Some practitioners use Yellow as furnished, but it can be heat-treated if greater resiliency or spring performance is required. After heat-treating, Yellow can be adjusted slightly, but should not be adjusted sharply. It is excellent for flat wire techniques. Yellow Elgiloy is recommended where greater spring qualities are needed, than those provided by Blue Elgiloy.

Green – Green Elgiloy is initially semi-resilient and will temper comparable to high spring-tempered steel wires. It can be shaped easily with the fingers and can be plier-manipulated before heat-treating.

Red – Red Elgiloy is initially “hard” with exceptionally high spring qualities. It is not recommended for heat-treating. Use where adjustments will not be required after
heat-treating.

Features

• Superior physical properties
• Longer functioning as a resilient spring wire without distortion or fatigue
• Easy soldering without annealing
• Easy heat-treating to increase physical properties
• Simple electrolyte polishing

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RU-CHROME^® is a stable, consistent, predictable performance stainless-steel wire, offered in four tempers. Quality controls are the tightest of any stainless steel wire in the industry. These wires are available in Penta-Morphic^®, natural, ideal and blank arches as well as straight lengths (round, square and rectangular).

FOUR TEMPERS:

– Resilient Arch Wire Temper
– Retainer Wire or No. 2 Temper
– Clasp Wire Temper
– Ligature Wire Temper

Features

• Stable, consistent & predictable performance
• Quality controls are the tightest of any stainless steel wire in the industry
• Available in Penta-Morphic®, natural, ideal & blank arches, as well as straight lengths

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NiTi wires were introduced as orthodontic wires due to their unique properties of shape memory and maintaining a constant force over a range of wire deflections to move teeth. RMO® offers many options for wires having low, medium, and high tooth-moving forces. The wire lines were designed with Thermaloy® having the lowest forces with a true heat-activation characteristic in the mouth. Thermaloy® Plus delivers medium forces, while still offering the feel of a thermal-activated wire. Orthonol® delivers high forces and has super elastic properties.

Orthonol® has been used to offer additional arch forms in the Ricketts® Penta-morphic shapes. Wires have been designed and manufactured in a logical and consistent way. In each wire line, a larger wire delivers a greater force. Among wire lines, for the same size wire (for example, 0.16” round or .017” x .025” rectangular), Thermaloy® delivers the lowest force; Thermaloy® Plus delivers a moderate force; and Orthonol® delivers the largest force. This gives the doctor a large number of options in selecting the type and size wire that is right for his/her practice.

Orthonol® Superelastic Nickel-Titanium

• Nickel-titanium alloys are shape memory alloys
• Orthonol® is superelastic nickel-titanium in preformed natural arch shapes
• Provides an ideal continuous gentle force at a constant, uninterrupted force level for tooth movement
• Reduces chair time by extending time between visits
• Permanent midline etchmarks: Three lines for a maxillary arch, one line for a mandibular arch

Features

• Nickel-titanium alloys are shape memory alloys
• Provides an ideal continuous gentle force at a constant, uninterrupted force level for tooth movement
• Reduces chair time by extending time between visits
• Permanent midline etchmarks: Three lines for a maxillary arch, one line for a mandibular arch
• Each arch wire is individually packaged and sealed in RMO® PurePak™ for enhanced product safety
• PurePak™ protects against airborne contaminants and cross contamination
• Tear away tab enclosure for easy access to individually sealed wires
• PurePak™ containers feature color-coded labels for easy identification of your wire inventories

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