Research Article

Impact of Peracetic Acid on the Dynamic Cyclic Fatigue of Heat-Treated Nickel-Titanium Rotary Endodontic Instrument

Table 2

The means and standard deviations (SD) of the number of cycles to failure of the tested files.

File treatmentFatigue resistance of file groups
One CurveProTaper GoldWave One Gold

Control (no PAA)1103.67 (18.96)1437.33 (67.59)1173.67 (25.93)
0.002% PAA965.42 (41.69)1394.25 (40.09)1075.49 (39.69)
0.35% PAA767.75 (37.59)1236.67 (26.09)973.00 (48.86)

A statistically significant difference in the independent samples t-test.