This paper presents a case report of a left mandibular second premolar with three canals and three different apical foramina. A 39-year-old male patient presented to our clinic with pain in the mandibular left second premolar. Initially, pain was caused by cold stimulus and later was spontaneously. The intraoral clinical examination revealed a fractured amalgam restoration with occlusal caries....

Objective: To verify in vitro whether an electronic apical location using a non-foramen by-pass technique influences the accuracy of the procedure. Methods: Fifteen incisors and canines human teeth with complete apical formation were used. Teeth were fixed to a resin-based model and embeded into alginate to serve as a conduction medium for the eletronical readings. Using a K-flexofile #20 coupl...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this study was to compare the accuracy of the Root ZX II Apex Locator (RZX), the Elements Apex Locator (ELE), and the Precision Apex Locator (PAL). METHODS Forty single-rooted extracted teeth were decoronated and the root canals coronally flared. Actual canal lengths were determined by inserting a #10 file until the tip was visualized (12.8x magnification) just wit...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to determine in anterior teeth, bicuspids, and molars (1) the accuracy of 3 different electronic apex locators (EALs) in detecting the apical foramen and (2) the accuracy of digital radiography in determining the working length (WL), compared with visible control under a microscope. METHODS By using radiovideography (RVG), we measured the lengths of 120 ...

BACKGROUND Correct working length determination is an important step for successful endodontic therapy. OBJECTIVE The objective was to compare in vitro the accuracy of three electronic apex locators (EALs) (DentaPort ZX [Morita Co., Tokyo, Japan], SIROEndo Pocket [Sirona Dental Systems, NY, USA], and Rootor [Meta Biomed, Cheongwon-gun, Korea]) in detecting the major foramen using the clearing...

Quantum computing is moving rapidly to the point of deployment of technology. Functional quantum devices will require the ability to correct error in order to be scalable and effective. A leading choice of error correction, in particular for modular or distributed architectures, is the surface code with logical two-qubit operations realised via “lattice surgery”. These operations consist of “me...

The relationship between serum concentrations of carotenoids, tocopherols and retinol and the consumption of cigarettes, alcohol and foods was investigated in 835 healthy inhabitants (aged 35-79 years) of a rural area of Hokkaido. Serum concentrations of beta-carotene (BC), alpha-carotene (AC), lycopene (LY), beta-cryptoxanthin (BX), zeaxanthin (including lutein, ZX), canthaxanthin (CX) and bet...

A groupoid identity is said to be linear of length 2k if the same k variables appear on both sides of the identity exactly once. We classify and count all varieties of groupoids defined by a single linear identity. For k = 3, there are 14 nontrivial varieties and they are in the most general position with respect to inclusion. Hentzel et. al. [3] showed that the linear identity (xy)z = y(zx) im...

The ZX-Calculus is a powerful graphical language for quantum mechanics and quantum information processing. The completeness of the language – i.e. the ability to derive any true equation – is a crucial question. In the quest of a complete ZX-calculus, supplementarity has been recently proved to be necessary for quantum diagram reasoning (MFCS 2016). Roughly speaking, supplementarity consists in...