Avaliação da resistência à corrosão das limas endodônticas Protaper® Universal, Mtwo®, Reciproc® e Wave-One® imersas em solução de hipoclorito de sódio a 5,25%

Abstract

This study tested the hypothesis that endodontic instruments manufactured with the NiTi alloy heat treated M-Wire are more resistant to corrosion in NaOCl solution. Was evaluated by potentiodynamic polarization test, the corrosion resistance of NiTi files 14 without surface treatment (Universal ProTaper® Finishing 2 - F2, n = 7 and Mtwo® 25.07, n = 7) and 14 files NiTi with surface treatment (R25 Reciproc® 25.08, n = 7 and Primary Wave-One® 25.08, n = 7), when immersed in irrigating solution of NaOCl 5.25%. In electronic scanning microscopy, the micromorfologies of 28 tested files analyzed before and after the electrochemical test. The anodic polarization curves obtained by scanning the potential Ecorr that initiated in each file with a rate of 0.333 mV/sec (1.2 V/minute) to the Epite, being considered passive track, the region where the values potential had density of less than 10-5 A/cm2 current. In order to compare the averages of the groups in pairs used to non-parametric Mann-Whitney test, using the SPSS-15 statistical software and the significance level was p < 0.05. The anodic polarization curves show that all tested files are liable to the corrosion solution of 5.25% NaOCl (pH = 6.5). It was observed that, in general, only between Mtwo® (without heat treatment) and Reciproc® (heat treated) files there was no statistically significant difference for Epite ECS and Epite- Ecorr (p = 1.000). When comparing in pairs, the files without heat treatment (ProTaper® Universal F2 and Mtwo®) with files with heat treatment (Reciproc® and Wave-One®) there was no statistically significant difference (Ecorr ECS, p = 1.000; Epite ECS, p = 0.265; Epite-Ecorr, p = 0.265). The Reciproc® file introduced more resistant to corrosion and the ProTaper® was the file that suffered most corrosion in the tested solution. Thus, the initial hypothesis that endodontic instruments manufactured with the NiTi heat treated M-Wire are more resistant to corrosion in a solution of NaOCl was refused.