CRITICAL PATH TECHNOLOGY

ProTaper NEXT and Instruments of Critical Path are a unique set of nickel-titanium endodontic instruments, which form a helical wave within the root canal and cut on a precessional axis. This feature differentiates these files from all other endodontic files. More than a dozen prototypes were produced and tested by Maillefer or Dentsply International (Ballaigues, Switzerland) over an 8 year period, and are nominally referred to as X-Files or Swaggering Files... Numerous patents describe the "critical path" of the root canal space and a theoretical or "critical set" of instruments, whereby the diameter of the files increases as a function of the expansion of the area of a circle. This feature distributes the work requirement for each instrument more evenly, when compared to the ISO file size system, and designed to mitigate cyclic fatigue and instrument failure... Read about owner Michael J. Scianamblo, DDS and Critical Path Technology, with specialties including endodontics, dental..

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