Loyola University Chicago Loyola eCommons Master's Theses Theses and Dissertations 1976 Stress Relaxation of Elastomeric Orthodontic Thread Robert Theodore Bergman Loyola University Chicago Follow this and additional works at: https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_theses Part of the Education Commons Recommended Citation Bergman, Robert Theodore, "Stress Relaxation of Elastomeric Orthodontic Thread" (1976). Master's Theses. 2851. https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_theses/2851 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses and Dissertations at Loyola eCommons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Master's Theses by an authorized administrator of Loyola eCommons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. Copyright © 1976 Robert Theodore Bergman STRESS RELAXATION OF ELASTOMERIC ORTHODONTIC THREAD by Robert T. Bergman, B. A., D. D.S. A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Loyola University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science June 1976 -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I wish to thank Dr. James L. Sandrik, for his advice and continued guidance which provided me with a sincere appreciation of investigative principles during the work on my thesis. I gratefully acknowledge Marie Feng whose assistance and advice helped during the preparation of this thesis. I acknowledge Dr. Milton Braun for his guidance and interest during my years of graduate work. I also wish to thank John Cheng for all the help he gave me in the processing of the statistics for this thesis. ii -- VITA Robert Theodore Bergman was born on April 6, 1942 in Los Angeles, California.