Eight months of clinical experience with the self-adjusting file system

Journal of Endodontics

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 881-887

  Solomonov, Michael ^a,b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b NONE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Instrumentation; irrigation; obturation; self adjusting file

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957497406     PISSN: 00992399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joen.2011.02.036     Document Type: Article

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