Assessment of the deviation after biomechanical preparation of the coronal, middle, and apical thirds of root canals instrumented with three HERO rotary systems.
The aim of the present study was to assess the risk of deviation of the root canals prepared by 3 HERO rotary systems, used solely or in association, by means of preoperative and postoperative imaging of a cross-section of their coronal, middle, and apical thirds. Fifty mesiobuccal canals of human first molars were randomly divided into 5 groups of 10 specimens each: group A, HERO 642; group B, HERO 642 + HERO Apical; group C, HERO Shaper; group D, HERO Shaper + HERO Apical; group E (control), NitiFlex files. Fisher exact test showed that the differences between the percentages of the presence of deviation and the differences observed between the proportions of instrumented and noninstrumented walls were not statistically significant. No system presented absolute effectiveness, because each of them produced morphologic changes and failed to instrument all the walls of the root canals. A level of significance of .05 was adopted.
Department of Prosthetics and Oral and Facial Surgery, MSc Course in Integrated Clinical Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil. andreaccam@yahoo.com.br
Andréa Cruz
AC
Câmara
Carlos Menezes
CM
Aguiar
Jose Antonio
JA
Poli de Figueiredo
D003762:Dental Instruments / Q000009:adverse effects*; D003786:Dental Pulp Cavity / Q000473:pathology*; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D008963:Molar; D018915:Root Canal Preparation / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000295:instrumentation*