Research Article

Evaluating In Vitro Performance of a Novel Stainless Steel Rotary System (Gentlefile) Based on Debris Extrusion and Instrumentation Time

Table 2

Mean and standard deviation of time (second) in the studied groups.

Grouping variableMeanStd. deviation95% confidence interval for meanMinimumMaximum value
Lower boundUpper bound

ProTaper22142.3618.49134.17150.56173.00110.00<.001
Gentlefile22166.8239.90149.13184.51233.0096.00
Manual22232.2752.83208.85255.70345.00145.00
Total66180.4854.67167.045193.93345.0096.00

One-way ANOVA.