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title: "21 CFR §872.4600"

source: "https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/section-872.4600"

title_number: "21"

volume_number: "8"

chapter_number: "Unknown"

subchapter_code: "H"

subchapter_subject: "MEDICAL DEVICES"

part_code: "872"

part_subject: "DENTAL DEVICES"

subpart_code: "E"

subpart_subject: "Surgical Devices"

section_number: "872.4600"

section_subject: "Intraoral ligature and wire lock."

cfr_reference: "21 CFR 872.4600"

title_name: "Title 21"

title_subject: "Food and Drugs"

parts_covered: "Parts 800 to 1299"

revised_date: "Revised as of April 1, 2019"

publication_date: "As of April 1, 2019"

contains_description: "Containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect"

publication_info: "Published by the Office of the Federal Register National Archives and Records Administration as a Special Edition of the Federal Register"

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(a)Identification. An intraoral ligature and wire lock is a metal device intended to constrict fractured bone segments in the oral cavity. The bone segments are stabilized by wrapping the ligature (wire) around the fractured bone segments and locking the ends together.

(b)Classification. Class II.

§872.4600 - Intraoral ligature and wire lock.