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EVALUATION OF THE ACCURACY OF THE ELECTRONIC APEX LOCATOR USING THE POLARIZING MICROSCOPE

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of an electronic apex locator, the Neosono - M, in determining the location of the cementodentinal junction. A total of 26 teeth with 46 canals were evaluated. The apex locator was used to locate the file and the teeth extracted. The specimen were prepared with highspeed burs and sandpaper discs to a thickness of $250{\sim}300{\mu}m$. Distances were measured from the cementodentinal junction with the use of polarizing microscope. Measurements made by the apex locator were also compared with those by the X - ray. The results were as follows. 1. The apex locator and X - ray were to measure a mean value of 0.17, 0.45mm coronal to the CDJ respectively. There was no significant difference between the accuracy of the apex locator and that of X - ray. 2. There was no significant difference between the accuracy of apex locator in vital and in nonvital teeth, and between in narrow and in wide canals. 3. The files in nonvital and narrow group were apical to the CDJ significantly than those of vital and narrow, vital and wide, and non vital and wide groups.