Evaluation of Irrigant Flow in the Root Canal Using Different Needle Types by an Unsteady Computational Fluid Dynamics Model

Journal of Endodontics

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 875-879

  Boutsioukis, Christos ^a,b   Verhaagen, Bram ^c   Versluis, Michel ^c   Kastrinakis, Eleftherios ^d   Wesselink, Paul R ^b   van der Sluis, Lucas W M ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c MIRA Institute for Biomedical Technology and Technical Medicine   (Netherlands)

^d ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Computational Fluid Dynamics; irrigation; needle; tip

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL AND DENTAL MATERIALS;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; DENTAL CARE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FLOW KINETICS; HUMAN; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; INSTRUMENTATION; LAVAGE; METHODOLOGY; NEEDLE; SHEAR STRENGTH; TOOTH PULP;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DENTAL PULP CAVITY; DENTAL STRESS ANALYSIS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; IRRIGATION; NEEDLES; RHEOLOGY; ROOT CANAL IRRIGANTS; SHEAR STRENGTH;

EID: 77951091851     PISSN: 00992399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joen.2009.12.026     Document Type: Article

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