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Endodontic file

Meaning in dentistry, with examples

nounCommon term

In dentistry, endodontic file means: A thin, flexible metal instrument with cutting edges, used by hand or with a motor to clean and shape the inside of root canals.

In Turkish: kanal eğesi, eğe, endodontik eğe

How it is used

Usually just called a file. Files are made of stainless steel or nickel-titanium (NiTi), and their sizes are numbered and color-coded to ISO standards. Dentists talk about hand files, rotary files and a separated (broken) file.

Example sentences

  1. Start with a size 10 endodontic file to find the canal.

  2. A small piece of the endodontic file separated in the curved canal.

Common collocations

  • hand file
  • rotary file
  • NiTi file
  • separated file
  • file size
  • root canal treatmentTreatment that removes inflamed or infected pulp from inside a tooth, then cleans, shapes and seals the root canals so that the tooth can be kept.
  • apexThe tip of a tooth root, where nerves and blood vessels enter the tooth through a small opening called the apical foramen.
  • gutta-perchaA rubber-like material based on the dried sap of a tropical tree. Together with a sealer, it is used to fill root canals after they have been cleaned and shaped.
  • rubber damA thin sheet of latex or latex-free rubber stretched on a frame and held by a clamp, so that only the tooth being treated shows through a hole.

More terms: Root Canal Treatment

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