The percentage of gutta-percha-filled area in simulated curved canals when filled using Endo Twinn, a new heat device source.
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...While most of these studies evaluated obturation of straight canals [3, 13, 14, 18, 20, 23, 25, 26] data regarding the quality of obturation of severely curved canals is limited [21, 22, 27]....
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...Area-metric analysis has been applied previously to examine several materials and techniques (Dandakis et al. 2005, Kececi et al. 2005, De-Deus et al. 2006, Pagavino et al. 2006, Gulsahi et al. 2007)....
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...Standardized artificial canals have been used in several earlier investigations to examine the quality of root canal obturation.(4,29) Plastic blocks with simulated canals may be readily cut using a diamond band saw at Table V....
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