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Retainers

Reliable retention begins with precision.

Gergen’s offers a complete selection of removable, clear, active, and fixed orthodontic retainers designed to maintain treatment results and support long-term stability. Each appliance is fabricated from your digital scan or model and carefully finished for accurate adaptation, patient comfort, and dependable clinical performance.

From traditional Hawley designs and esthetic clear retainers to active spring appliances and fixed retention, our technicians can customize each appliance to your prescription.

Hawley designs

The adjustable acrylic-and-wire retainers, from the standard Hawley to reinforced, esthetic and modified versions.

  • Hawley With Bite Plane: product photograph coming soon

    Hawley With Bite Plane

    Retention with customized vertical control. A bite plane can be incorporated into a Hawley Retainer when additional control of the occlusion is prescribed.

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  • Phase I retainer in pink and blue acrylic with clasps and finger springs, occlusal view on a white model

    Phase I Retainer

    Designed specifically for growing patients following early orthodontic treatment. The Phase I Retainer helps maintain arch development and treatment results while accommodating the changing dentition.

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  • Ricketts Retainer: product photograph coming soon

    Ricketts Retainer

    A specialized labial bow design for increased anterior control. The Ricketts Retainer utilizes a contoured labial wire configuration designed to provide controlled contact around the anterior teeth and canine region.

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  • Soldered Hawley in stars-and-stripes acrylic, bow soldered to the clasps, on a white model

    Soldered Hawley Retainer

    • Bow: Labial bow soldered to posterior clasps
    • Clasps: Adams, ball or C-clasps to prescription
    • Acrylic: Clear or coloured
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  • Soldered Wraparound Retainer: product photograph coming soon

    Soldered Wraparound Retainer

    A reinforced variation of the traditional wraparound design. The Soldered Wraparound combines circumferential retention with a rigid, soldered posterior wire assembly.

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  • Hawley retainer in green and yellow acrylic with labial bow and Adams clasps, on a white model

    Standard Hawley Retainer

    A proven standard for long-term orthodontic retention. The Hawley Retainer combines a durable acrylic base with a stainless-steel labial bow and posterior retention clasps.

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  • Witzig Retainer: product photograph coming soon

    Witzig Retainer

    Retainer built to the Witzig design, with wirework and acrylic coverage per prescription.

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  • Wraparound retainer in purple tie-dye acrylic, on a white model

    Wraparound Hawley Retainer

    Designed for excellent retention while allowing natural posterior settling. The Wraparound Hawley features a continuous labial wire that extends around the arch to the posterior teeth, eliminating conventional clasp wires that cross the occlusion.

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Spring and active retainers

Retention with the ability to correct minor anterior relapse, fabricated passively or over a prescribed tooth setup.

  • Modified Spring Retainer: product photograph coming soon

    Modified Spring Retainer

    Additional control for minor anterior alignment changes. The Modified Spring Retainer expands on the traditional spring-retainer concept with customized wire components designed to provide greater control of selected teeth.

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  • Serrano retraction appliance (Auto Hawley) in red acrylic with the retraction mechanism on the labial bow, on a white model

    Serrano Retraction Appliance (Auto Hawley)

    The Auto Hawley: controlled anterior splaying and effective space closure. Each appliance arrives pre-adjusted for easy insertion, reducing chair time with predictable, efficient treatment.

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  • Spring Aligner: product photograph coming soon
    3D printed available

    Spring Aligner

    A removable appliance designed for minor anterior tooth correction. The Spring Aligner uses opposing facial and lingual components to provide controlled pressure to selected anterior teeth.

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  • Spring Clip Retainer: product photograph coming soon

    Spring Clip Retainer

    A compact design for anterior retention and minor correction. The Spring Clip typically extends from canine to canine and uses a closely adapted wire-and-acrylic framework around the anterior teeth.

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  • Spring Retainer: product photograph coming soon

    Spring Retainer

    Retention with the ability to address minor anterior relapse. The Spring Retainer incorporates an active wire-and-acrylic design around the anterior teeth.

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Clear retainers

Transparent thermoplastic retention, with pontic, active, Phase I and whitening versions.

  • Active Clear Retainer: product photograph coming soon
    3D printed available

    Active Clear Retainer

    • Design: Clear thermoformed over a reset model
    • Movement: Minor, single-step
    • Records: Scan or impression, opposing bite, teeth and direction marked
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  • Clear Retainer With Pontic: product photograph coming soon
    3D printed available

    Clear Retainer With Pontic

    • Base: Clear thermoformed retainer
    • Pontic: Denture tooth or shaded composite, VITA shade
    • Records: Scan or impression, opposing bite, shade
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  • Clear upper and lower invisible retainers3D printed available

    Invisible Clear Retainer

    Discreet, comfortable retention with full-arch coverage. Our clear retainer is fabricated from transparent thermoplastic material that closely adapts to the patient's dentition.

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  • Phase I (Theroux) retainers, clear posterior segments on white models

    Theroux Phase I Retainer

    • Design: Clear thermoformed or acrylic plate, relieved for eruption
    • Retention: On teeth that are staying
    • Records: Scan or impression, opposing bite, eruption notes
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Fixed retention

Bonded and banded retainers that do not depend on patient compliance.

  • Banded Fixed Retainer: product photograph coming soon
    3D bands available

    Banded Fixed Retainer

    • Anchorage: Posterior bands, fitted or laser sintered
    • Wire: Soldered retaining wire to prescription
    • Records: Scan or impression, opposing bite
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  • Fixed wire retainer on a lower dental model, occlusal view3D printed available

    Bonded Lingual Retainer

    Fixed retention designed to maintain anterior alignment. The Bonded Lingual Retainer is custom-contoured to the lingual surfaces of the anterior teeth for precise adaptation and long-term retention.

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  • Bonded Lingual Retainer With Custom Pads: product photograph coming soon
    3D printed available

    Bonded Lingual Retainer With Custom Pads

    Precision fixed retention designed to simplify placement. This retainer combines a custom-contoured lingual wire with bonding pads adapted to the selected teeth.

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Temporary tooth replacement

Retention that also fills a space while the patient waits for definitive treatment.

  • Flipper / Temporary Partial Retainer: product photograph coming soon

    Flipper / Temporary Partial Retainer

    Temporary tooth replacement with removable retention. The Flipper is a lightweight removable acrylic appliance designed to replace one or more missing teeth while maintaining space and appearance.

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  • Hawley retainer with pontic replacing a lower incisor, three-quarter view on a grey model

    Hawley Retainer With Pontic

    • Base: Hawley plate, labial bow and clasps to prescription
    • Pontic: Denture tooth, VITA shade
    • Records: Scan or impression, opposing bite, shade
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Custom retainer options

Gergen’s retainers can be customized to meet your preferred clinical design.

Have a custom design?

If you have a preferred retainer design that is not shown here, send us your prescription, drawing, or reference. Our technicians can fabricate custom wire and acrylic configurations to meet your clinical requirements.

  • Standard and wraparound labial bows
  • C-clasps
  • Adams clasps
  • Ball clasps
  • Custom clasp designs
  • Clear esthetic bows
  • Finger and auxiliary springs
  • Expansion screws
  • Anterior bite planes
  • Posterior bite planes
  • Pontics
  • Full-palatal or reduced acrylic coverage
  • Custom acrylic colors and designs
  • Upper and lower configurations
  • Digital or traditional model fabrication