Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7211592 | Ciência & Tecnologia dos Materiais | 2017 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
Three brands of rotary nickel-titanium endodontic instruments with some comparable geometric features but with different cross-section (similar tip size and same taper of .04) were selected for this study: MTwo .04(35) (VDW GmbH, Germany), K3 .04(30) (SybronEndo, Mexico) and K3XF .04(30) (SybronEndo, Mexico). K3XF is made from novel R-phase heat-treated metal alloy while all other files were made from traditional Ni-Ti alloy. The instruments were analysed under the following conditions: i) as-received (AR), ii) heat treated at 350 °C, iii) heat treated at 400 °C. The transformation temperatures were determined by differential scanning calorimeter (DSC). Compared to conventionally K3 and MTwo files, R-phase heat treatment K3XF file showed higher transformation temperatures. These results also showed that heat treatments increase the transformation temperatures.
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Authors
F.M. Braz Fernandes, A.R. Alves, A. Machado, J.P. Oliveira,