Comparison of procedural errors resulting during root canal preparations completed by senior dental students in patients using an '8-step method' versus 'serial step-back technique'

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

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 745-748

  Kfir, Anda ^a   Rosenberg, Esther ^a   Zuckerman, Offer ^a   Tamse, Aviad ^a   Fuss, Zvi ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUTTA PERCHA; NICKEL; STAINLESS STEEL; TITANIUM;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTAL EQUIPMENT; ENDODONTICS; ERROR; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MANDIBLE; MAXILLA; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; MOTION; PATIENT; POLYMERIZATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TECHNIQUE; TOOTH CROWN; TOOTH ROOT CANAL; X RAY FILM;

BISMUTH; DENTAL ALLOYS; DENTAL PULP CAVITY; DRUG COMBINATIONS; ENDODONTICS; EPOXY RESINS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GUTTA-PERCHA; HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; NICKEL; ROOT CANAL FILLING MATERIALS; ROOT CANAL OBTURATION; ROOT CANAL PREPARATION; SILVER; STAINLESS STEEL; STUDENTS, DENTAL; TITANIUM; TOOTH APEX;

EID: 2942571554     PISSN: 10792104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tripleo.2003.12.039     Document Type: Article

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