Torque Generation of the Endodontic Instruments: A Narrative Review
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Abstract
As the use of nickel-titanium (NiTi) file systems for root canal therapy has become popular; hence, knowledge and understanding of the characteristics of NiTi files is essential for dentists. Unintended sudden fracture can occur during root canal shaping, and it is important to understand the conditions that may cause instrument fractures. Torque is defined as the force required to rotate the NiTi file and can be considered of as a parameter for the stress generated. The endodontic engine maintains a constant rotational speed by adjusting torque regardless of the root canal conditions. The process of root canal shaping by rotary instruments is a series of actions that requires torque and generates stress to both the teeth and the NiTi instruments. The generated stress may induce the strain accumulation on NiTi instrument and the canal wall and lead to the development of microcrack in the instrument and dentinal wall. Therefore, understanding of torque and stress generated is important to prevent the fractures to the instrument and the teeth. This stress has been measured using various experimental approaches, including microcrack observation by using a microscope or computed tomography, attaching strain gauges to the teeth, and finite element analysis. This review focuses on the stress generated to the teeth and the instrument during instrumentation under various experimental conditions. The factors related to torque generation are also discussed.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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