%0 Journal Article %T Caracterizaci¨®n de los Alambres Termoactivados para Uso Ortod¨®ncico: Reporte de Caso %A Sandoval Vidal %A Paulo %A Lara L %A Alejandro %A Minte Hidalgo %A Carolina %A Guti¨¦rrez Moraga %A Pedro %J International journal of odontostomatology %D 2012 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.4067/S0718-381X2012000100009 %X the copper-nickel-titanium (niticu) are characterized by shape memory superelastic transforming from an austenitic state to martensitic to a different temperature, to which heat activated wires is called, this property is widely used in orthodontics. will be followed by a literature review of these wires on the subject of a clinical case. %K niticu wires %K heat activated %K martensitic %K austenitic. %U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0718-381X2012000100009&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en