Research Article

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

Table 4

The means and standard deviations (SD) of the fragmented lengths of the tested files.

File treatmentFragment lengths in the file groups (mm)
One CurveProTaper GoldWave One Gold

Control (no PAA)2.57 (0.087)4.06 (1.09)5.53 (0.64)
0.002 wt.% PAA2.765 (0.36)3.68 (0.55)5.58 (0.12)
0.34 wt.% PAA2.566 (0.25)3.92 (1.13)6.31 (0.41)

A statistically significant difference () in the Mann–Whitney U test.