Our own Nickel-free wire exhibits excellent formability. Perfect for custom tipping, aligning, space closure and more!
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Our Support - Material Selection
As the science of orthodontics evolves, Ultimate’s R&D Department answers the need with wires to meet your customers' specific treatment plans! Here you will find the technical details behind these wires.
Give your customers what they are looking for!
- Highest Quality Materials from US Producers
- Efficient Tooth Movement
- Patient Comfort
- Ease of Use
Choosing the Best Materials for the Application
Material Comparison Graphs
Material Usage Chart
Material Attributes
Nickel Titanium Wire
(NiTi -approximately 55% Ni and 45% Ti):
Ideal for alignment and leveling in early to mid-stages of treatment. All NiTi wires exhibit a unique “Superelastic” behavior.
Superelastic behavior provides:
- Light to moderate, consistent forces.
- Responsiveness to chilling.
- Near consistent force over a long activation period.
- Greater patient comfort over Stainless Steel wires.
- Excellent resiliency, resulting in high resistance to permanent set.
- High flexibility.
- Leveling, torque, and rotation can be addressed simultaneously early in treatment. No need to treat each of these individually, as is the case if using Stainless Steel wires.
In addition, Nickel Titanium wire may also demonstrate a heat-activated "Shape Memory" effect produced through a tightly controlled manufacturing process.
Ultra Therm® Plus, Ultra Therm®, and Gradient-3® wires are shape memory, heat-activated wires.
Shape memory properties exhibited by heat-activated, or thermal, Nickel Titanium wires:
- Superb flexibility at room temperature, allowing for even easier ligation. Soft in the hand.
- Very responsive to chilling.
- Gentle forces are initiated by intraoral heat and remain consistent throughout treatment.
- Noticeably more comfortable for the patient due to low forces.
- Allows for patient to control discomfort with cold water rinses.
Black-Ti® Nickel Titanium Wire
(NiTi -approximately 55% Ni and 45% Ti):
Your customers will love the efficiency of our Black-Ti superelastic premium wires! Ultimate Wireforms developed this ultra smooth, hard black surface nickel titanium wire engineered specifically for reduced friction and efficient tooth movement.
- 30% less friction than traditional Nickel Titanium wire provides improved sliding mechanics.
- Our highest force Superelastic NiTi wire.
- Hard surface is an integral part of the wire; not a coating.
- Black color nearly indistinguishable from other wires when in the mouth.
- Very resilient.
Specific product information on our entire Nickel Titanium Wire line, which includes Superelastic 1, Black-Ti® SE, Ultra Therm® Plus, Ultra Therm®, Gradient-3®, and Reverse Curve of Spee wires, can be found in the Nickel Titanium Wire section. Product information for our Nickel Titanium Specialized Archwires, such as Torqued, CTA®, and Utility Arches can be found in the Specialized Archwire section.
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(A titanium molybdenum wire composed of 79% Ti, 11% Mo, 6% Zr, and 4% Sn):
The characteristics of our custom designed, nickel-free Beta III Titanium wire make this perfect for use in mid- to late stages of treatment where space closure, rotation, and proper molar relationship are the goal.
- Nickel-free! Eliminates treatment concern of nickel sensitivity in patients.
- Excellent formability allows easy fabrication of loops and bends for space closure and tooth movement.
- Easily accepts 1st and 2nd order bends for tipping and aligning.
- Very good resiliency as compared to Stainless Steel.
- Approximately half the tooth-moving force of Stainless Steel.
- Excellent finishing wire.
- Retainer and appliance fabrication is easy with our ßIII-CNA® 14" lengths.
Specific product information on our ßIII-CNA® Wire line, which includes Archwires and Lengths can be found within the ßIII-CNA® Wire pages. Product information for our ßIII-CNA® Specialized Archwires, such as CTA® and Looped Arches, can be found in the Specialized Archwire section.
Back to topStainless Steel Solid Bright Wire
Our archwires are manufactured from medical grade 304V Stainless Steel material (70% Fe, 19% Cr, 9% Ni, 1.5% Mn, 0.5% Si). These archwires can be used throughout treatment but are best suited for mid- to late stages of treatment.
- Superior surface finish.
- Higher force and limited resiliency as compared with ßIII-CNA® wire.
- Forces drop quickly; best suited as a finishing wire.
- Easy to bend.
- Greater patient discomfort when used in early treatment stages.
Stainless Steel Solid Goldtone Wire
A precise heat treatment of solid Stainless Steel wire produces slightly higher force levels.
- Approximately 5% greater tensile strength than Stainless Steel Solid Bright wires.
- Subtle, golden finish.
- Same characteristics listed above for Stainless Steel Solid wire.
Stainless Steel Multi-strand (Bright) Wire
Ultimate’s three types of multi-strand wires made of medical grade Type 302SS (71% Fe, 18% Cr, 9% Ni, 1% Mn, 0.5% Si) are well suited for early stages of treatment as well as the finishing stage of detailing and retention. Lower forces and better resiliency than solid Stainless Steel.
- 3-strand (twisted) wire provides moderate forces and limited flexibility.
- Coax (6-strand) wire provides lighter to moderate forces and slightly better resiliency than 3-strand.
- 8-Braid wire provides the lightest forces of the multi-strand Stainless Steel wires, with relatively good resiliency.
Specific product information on our Stainless Steel Wire line, which includes Solid, 3-Strand, Coax, and 8-Braid wires can be found within the Stainless Steel Wire pages. Product information for our Stainless Steel Specialized Archwires, such as Looped, and Utility arches, can be found in the Specialized Archwire section.
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The following graphs provide a quick reference of comparative forces and permanent deformation for Ultimate Wireforms’ wire offerings. Testing was performed on wire sizes of comparable cross-sectional size so that the relation of forces and permanent deformation can be seen. For specific material and wire size data, please refer to the appropriate force chart found in the Our Support section of the catalog.
Relational Forces
The Nickel Titanium “family” of wires provide near-constant light to moderate forces over a long activation range. Comparably sized Stainless Steel wire exhibits the highest ligating and toothmoving force. ßIII-CNA® wire, due to its moderate tooth-moving forces and excellent formability, is perfect for mid-to late stages of treatment.
Back to topRelative Permanent Deformation
The graph below shows the relative resiliency of the archwire materials. Resiliency is commonly defined as the “archwire's resistance to permanent bend set or permanent deformation”. For the purposes of accurate comparison, all the wires were tested in accordance with ISO 15841, the accepted international standard for testing orthodontic archwires. All testing was performed on same cross-sectional size wire. Please note that the lower value indicates less permanent deformation, and therefore greater resiliency. The relative resiliency between the archwire materials shown below is indicative across all the wire sizes and is useful in understanding how one archwire material may perform in relation to another.
As expected, NiTi wires show the least amount of permanent deformation and Solid Stainless Steel wire shows the greatest amount of permanent deformation.
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Suggested Stages of Treatment
Ultimate Wireforms offers archwires in a variety of materials to address early to late stages of treatment most efficiently. The quality controlled, dependable characteristics of our premium archwires allow your doctors to treat each case with confidence.
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Expect the best! Ultimate Wireforms offers you the high quality wires you want for:
- Ease of Use
- Patient Comfort
- Efficient Tooth Movement!