Piasecki, Lucila and Al-Sudani, Dina and Giansiracusa Rubini, Alessio and Sannino, Giampaolo and Bossù, Maurizio and Testarelli, Luca and Di Giorgio, Roberto and da Silva-Neto, Ulisses Xavier and Brandão, Christian Giampietro and Gambarini, Gianluca (2013) Mechanical resistance of carbon and stainless steel hand instruments used in a reciprocating handpiece. Annali di stomatologia, 4 (3/4). pp. 259-262. ISSN 1971-1441
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Abstract
The manual files are still widely used for initial canal negotiation prior the use of nickel-titani-um shaping instruments, to determine working length and to verify patency. A mechanical glide path can be performed using manual files with handpieces, such as M4 Handpiece (SybronEndo, USA) that allows a 30°/30° reciprocating motion. The Pathfinders (SybronEndo, USA) are hand files designed to negotiate complex canals, made from stainless steel (SS) or carbon steel (CS) alloys. The aim of this in vitro study was to compare cyclic fatigue resistance of these two different types of manual Pathfinder instruments used in a M4 reciprocating handpiece in double curved artificial canals. Manual instruments designed for glide path (size #9 ISO .02 taper) made from different alloys were selected: Group SS - stainless steel Pathfinders (Sybron Endo) and Group CS - carbon steel Pathfinders size K2 (Sybron Endo). Ten instruments of each group were tested for resistance to cyclic fatigue with a reciprocating M4 handpiece inside an artificial S-shaped canal; the time to fracture was recorded for each file and data were statistically analyzed (ANOVA). Mean values (and SD) were 527 (± 89) seconds for the CS instruments and 548 (± 104) seconds for the SS files. No significant differences were observed between groups (p=0,062). According to the results, both carbon and stainless steel instruments presented similar fatigue resistance when used with M4 reciprocating handpiece in double curved canals.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | cyclic fatigue, endodontic instruments, carbon steel, stainless steel, reciprocating handpiece |
| Subjects: | 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) |
| Depositing User: | Marina Spanti |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Jul 2015 15:10 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Jul 2015 15:23 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/10428 |
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