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Table 2 Mean and standard deviation of laboratory cantilever bending test

From: Relation between laboratory cantilever bending test and finite element analysis of five different nickel-titanium rotary instruments

Endodontic file

TF adaptive

HyFlex EDM

Wave One

Reciproc Blue

One Shape

P value

Cantilever bending (grams)

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

Ë‚ 0.0001*

86a

± 0.1

99.8b

± 0.5

144.5c

± 0.4

155d

± 0.8

174e

± 0.4

  1. Mean with different letters indicate statistically significance difference. *Significant (p < 0.05)