The effect of brushing motion on the cyclic fatigue of rotary nickel titanium instruments

The goal of the study is to evaluate if the use of rotary nickel-titanium (RNT) instruments, as Hedstroem files, is safe. Twelve twisted files (TF) RNT instruments size 06-25 were selected and randomly divided in 2 groups of 6 instruments each. Group A (new instruments) were used as control. Group B...

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Main Authors: Gianluca Gambarini, Eugenio Tucci, Rossella Bedini, Raffaella Pecci, Massimo Galli, Valerio Milana, Massimo De Luca, Luca Testarelli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Istituto Superiore di Sanità 2010-12-01
Series:Annali dell'Istituto Superiore di Sanità
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Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0021-25712010000400007&lng=en&tlng=en