The Uptake of Nickel-Titanium Rotary Files in Saudi Arabia
Table 8
Reasons preventing the usage of NTRF.
Reasons preventing the usage of NiTi
Users of NiTi (%)a
Never used NiTib (%)a
Not available
52 (19)
86 (64.7)*
Lack of experience
23 (8.4)
72 (54.1)**
Lack of knowledge or continuous education
18 (6.6)
39 (29.3)*
Fear of perforation
24 (8.8)
17 (12.8)
Fear of breakage
84 (30.8)**
15 (11.3)
Too expensive
53 (19.4)**
11 (8.3)
Do not see an advantage over hand files
10 (3.7)
8 (6)
Difficult to learn and use
1 (0.4)
6 (4.5)
Not seeing a lot of patients needing root canal treatment
2 (0.7)
5 (3.8)
No reason preventing me to use them
114 (41.8)**
5 (3.8)
Other reasons
7 (2.6)
5 (3.8)
aThe percentage valued between parenthesis refers to each group, Significant at **(P ≤ 0.001); *(P ≤ 0.05), bReasons preventing NTRF usage among nonuser group in descending order.
