Ilana-Thais-de Freitas Lima, Ana-Letícia-Linhares-de Sousa Paula, Reuton-Dos Santos Palheta-Filho, Amanda-Brito Santos, Nathalia-de Aguiar Freitas, George-Táccio-de Miranda Candeiro
The present study aimed to evaluate the accuracy of four different Electronic Foraminal Locators (EFLs): Root ZX II (J. Morita, Tokyo, Japan), RomiApex A15 (Romidan, Kiryat-Ono, Israel), FinePex (Schuster, Porto Alegre, Brazil) and VDW Gold (VDW, Munich, Germany), in determining root length during endodontic retreatment steps. Twenty-seven human unirooted teeth had their crowns sectioned to standardize the teeth to 17 mm. The actual tooth length was visualized with an operating microscope and a #15 file juxtaposed to the apical foramen...
March 2024: Journal of Clinical and Experimental Dentistry