The Effect of Different Soft Drinks on the Force Degradation of Conventional and Memory Orthodontic Elastic Chains: An In-Vitro Study.

The aim of this study was to assess how different soft drinks affect the deterioration of conventional and memory orthodontic elastomeric chains. We used 500 five-loop segments of elastomeric chains, which were divided into two equal groups of conventional and memory chains. The samples were kept in artificial saliva during the study period.