arch bar

arch bar
any of several types of heavy wire bars shaped to the outer circumference of the dental arch and extending from one side to the other so that intervening teeth may be attached to it; used for treatment of fractures of the jaws and for stabilization of injured teeth.

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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