Failure of ProFile instruments used with air, high torque control, and low torque control motors

Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology, and Endodontics

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 92-96

  Yared, Ghassan ^a   Sleiman, Philippe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b LEBANESE UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICKEL; TITANIUM; TITANIUM NICKELIDE;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; DENTAL EQUIPMENT; ENDODONTICS; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MOLAR TOOTH; TORQUE;

AIR PRESSURE; DENTAL EQUIPMENT; DENTAL INSTRUMENTS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HUMANS; MOLAR; NICKEL; ROOT CANAL PREPARATION; TITANIUM; TORQUE;

EID: 0036363074     PISSN: 10792104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/moe.2002.118095     Document Type: Article

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