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CLINICAL ORAL INVESTIGATIONS
Volume 25, Issue 6, Pages 4137-4143Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00784-020-03745-z
Keywords
Additional apical enlargement; Microcrack; Micro-computed tomography
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- King Abdullah International Medical Research Centre, National Guard Health Affairs, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia [RC15/027/R]
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Regardless of the instrumentation system used, additional apical enlargement led to the formation of a high number of new microcracks.
Objectives To assess the effect of additional apical enlargement using nickel titanium (NiTi) instruments on the incidence of microcracks using micro-computed tomographic analysis. Materials and methods Fifty-one premolars with single canals were enlarged to ProTaper Gold (PTG) F2 (25/08) (Dentsply Sirona), ProFile Vortex Blue (VB) 25/06 (Dentsply Tulsa), or WaveOne Gold (WOG) primary (25/07) (Dentsply Sirona) NiTi rotary instruments (n = 17 each). Afterward, additional apical enlargement was performed in each group with its corresponding larger instrument (F3 (30/09), VB 30/06, or WOG Medium (35/06) instruments, respectively). All teeth were imaged with micro-computed tomography before canal enlargement and after initial and additional apical enlargements to detect new microcracks at the apical 5 mm. An Aligned Rank Transform ANOVA was conducted to examine the effects of file type and canal enlargement on the number of new microcracks resulting from enlargement. A Kruskal-Wallis test was run to compare the file types at each canal enlargement stage. Results A significant main effect (P = 0.026) of canal enlargement on the number of new microcracks was found; the number of apical microcracks found after additional enlargement was significantly greater than baseline (P = 0.021); no significant difference was found between baseline and initial enlargement (P = 0.506) and between initial enlargement and additional enlargement (P = 0.252). The Kruskal-Wallis tests found no difference between file types at baseline (P = 0.348), after initial enlargement (P = 0.369) or additional enlargement (P = 0.133). Conclusions Regardless of the instrumentation system used, additional apical enlargement led to the formation of high number of new microcracks. Clinical significance The results indicated that additional enlargement induced significant number of apical microcracks.
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