Comparative stress effects of vented and nonvented self-threading retentive pins.
Longitudinally vented self-threading pins do not demonstrate a significant improvement in the complete seating of the pins or a decrease of dentinal crazing. The link series technique does demonstrate a significant improvement in the complete seating of pins and in the prevention of misalignment of the pins with the channels.
D003772:Dental Pins; D003799:Dental Stress Analysis; D003804:Dentin / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D004867:Equipment Design; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D013314:Stress, Mechanical