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

• Main Authors: Gianluca Gambarini (Author), Eugenio Tucci (Author), Rossella Bedini (Author), Raffaella Pecci (Author), Massimo Galli (Author), Valerio Milana (Author), Massimo De Luca (Author), Luca Testarelli (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Istituto Superiore di Sanità, 2010-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...