Bending properties of rotary nickel-titanium instruments

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

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 757-763

  Schäfer, Edgar ^a,b   Dzepina, Anita ^a   Danesh, Gholamreza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICKEL; TITANIUM;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RIGIDITY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST;

EID: 0346995114     PISSN: 10792104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1079-2104(03)00358-5     Document Type: Article

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