retrocline

Compare procline. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

retrocline (third-person singular simple present retroclines, present participle retroclining, simple past and past participle retroclined)

1. (intransitive, dentistry) Of teeth, to lean backward.

   Coordinate term: procline

   • 2010, Jayne Harrison, Kathleen O'Donovan, “Orthodontic Dental Nursing”, in Robert S. Ireland, editor, Advanced Dental Nursing, 2nd edition, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 308:

     In Class II cases the maxillary incisors retrocline and the eruption of teeth in the maxillary buccal segments is directed distally during treatment. In the mandibular arch the lower incisors tend to procline and the teeth in the buccal segments erupt in a more mesial direction.

2. (transitive, dentistry) To cause (teeth) to lean backward.

   Coordinate term: procline

   • 2010, Jayne Harrison, Kathleen O'Donovan, “Orthodontic Dental Nursing”, in Robert S. Ireland, editor, Advanced Dental Nursing, 2nd edition, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 273:

     These curves do have a tendency to procline the incisors so the wires are often tied back […] to maintain the arch length and minimise incisor proclination. Alternatively, torque can be placed in the archwire to retrocline the incisors.