Shaping Ability of Superelastic and Controlled Memory Nickel-Titanium File Systems: An In Vitro Study

Table 1

Area removed¹ (mm²) for each instrument.

Segments	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
F360
Outer wall	0.03 ± 0.01	0.04 ± 0.02	0.06 ± 0.02	0.07 ± 0.02	0.07 ± 0.02	0.05 ± 0.02	0.08 ± 0.03	0.13 ± 0.02	0.16 ± 0.03	0.16 ± 03
Inner wall	0.02 ± 0.01	0.03 ± 0.01	0.03 ± 0.01	0.04 ± 0.02	0.09 ± 0.03	0.13 ± 0.03	0.12 ± 0.02	0.10 ± 0.01	0.10 ± 0.01	0.09 ± 02
values	0.047	0.396	0.007	0.011	0.128	0.005	0.005	0.005	0.005	0.005
HyFlex®CM™
Outer wall	0.03 ± 0.01	0.03 ± 0.02	0.06 ± 0.02	0.07 ± 0.02	0.05 ± 0.02	0.04 ± 0.01	0.08 ± 0.01	0.11 ± 0.02	0.14 ± 0.02	0.15 ± 0.02
Inner wall	0.03 ± 0.01	0.04 ± 0.02	0.03 ± 0.01	0.05 ± 0.02	0.10 ± 0.02	0.13± 0.02	0.10 ± 0.02	0.08 ± 0.01	0.08 ± 0.02	0.07 ± 0.02
values	0.096	0.726	0.008	0.015	0.009	0.005	0.076	0.009	0.007	0.005

¹Mean ± standard deviation; values are statistically significant.