Waveguide Photoactuators: Materials, Fabrication, and Applications
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Waveguide photoactuators convert guided light into mechanical motion. Their tethered‐flexible design enables minimally invasive surgery and confined‐space robotics. This review aims to guide materials selection, device design, and system integration, accelerating the transition of waveguide photoactuators from laboratory prototypes to versatile ...
Minjie Xi +4 more
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Efficacy of Twisted File Adaptive, Reciproc and ProTaper Universal Retreatment instruments for root-canal-filling removal: A cone-beam computed tomography study [PDF]
, 2016 The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of Twisted File (TF) Adaptive, Reciproc, and ProTaper Universal Retreatment (UR) System instruments for removing root-canal-filling. Sixty single rooted teeth were decoronated, instrumented and obturated.
Sevgi SENER +11 more
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Hybrid Continuum Robot Designs and Architectures for Healthcare Applications
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Hybrid continuum robots represent an emerging class of flexible manipulators that blend materials, structures, and actuation concepts from the established fields of soft and continuum robotics. This review introduces an accessible framework to distinguish key hybridization approaches, surveys current designs aimed at complex clinical applications, and ...
Burak Ozdemir +4 more
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Avaliação da infiltração cervico-apical, par meio de microorganismos, atraves de canais radiculares obturados por tecnicas da guta-percha termoplastificada e condensação lateral : estudo in vitro [PDF]
, 1998 Dissertação (Mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciencias da SaudeEste estudo avaliou in vitro o selamento, no sentido cérvico-apical, de canais radiculares obturados pela técnica de condensação lateral de cones de guta-percha ...
Lucena, Marcia Gonçalves
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Cross‐Scale Hierarchical Targeted Delivery System Based on Small‐Scale Magnetic Robots
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This article reviews a cross‐scale hierarchical targeted delivery system that integrates magnetic continuum robots and magnetic microrobots. By combining rapid long‐range navigation with precise microscale targeting, the system overcomes key limitations of single‐scale approaches.
Junjian Zhou +4 more
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Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This review highlights recent advances in material extrusion 3D printing of self‐healing polymers, focusing on the interplay between material chemistry, rheology, hardware customization, and process optimization. Filament‐ and ink‐based extrusion strategies, multimaterial architectures, and postprocessing approaches are discussed for applications in ...
Antonio Pavone +2 more
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Evaluation of failed endodontically treated molar teeth using micro-computed tomography
BMC Oral HealthBackground The present study aimed to assess the internal root canal morphology and the quality of obturation in endodontically treated and failed first molars using micro-computed tomography (micro-CT).
Neslihan Büşra Keskin +6 more
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Efficacy of novel thermomechanically treated reciprocating systems for gutta-percha removal from root canals obturated with warm vertical compaction [PDF]
Journal of Dental Research, Dental Clinics, Dental Prospects, 2018 Background. The present study aimed to test the efficacy of novel reciprocating systems in terms of gutta-percha removal from root canals obturated with warm vertical compaction technique. Methods.
Cangul Keskin +2 more
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Influência do processo de biomineralização e da adição de cloreto de cálcio ao MTA branco no selamento apical: avaliação ex vivo em modelo de rizogênese incompleta [PDF]
, 2012 Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências da Saúde. Programa de Pós-Graduação em OdontologiaO objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar, num modelo de apicificação ex vivo, se a interação do sistema MTA/dentina com PBS ...
Almeida, Josiane de
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The association between complete absence of post-treatment periapical lesion and quality of root canal filling [PDF]
, 2012 Aim The technical quality of a root canal treatment is clinically judged by the apical extension and homogeneity of the filling material imaged by periapical radiographs (PA).
Paul R. Wesselink +9 more
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