Method for monitoring for failure of an endodontic instrument
AssigneeMicro-Mega International
InventorsRachid RAHOUADJ, Marin VINCENT, Rémy BALTHAZARD, Marie DEVALLOIR
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Abstract
A method for monitoring a failure of an endodontic instrument used during an endodontic treatment during which the instrument is driven by a handpiece and generates a set of acoustic emission signals, remarkable in that the method includes the steps of: sensing and analysing all of the acoustic emission signals generated by use of the instrument; and when a failure of the instrument occurs, thus generating a failure acoustic emission signal, detecting the failure acoustic emission signal amongst the set of acoustic emission signals in order to detect the occurrence of the failure.
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A method of monitoring failure of an endodontic instrument used in endodontic treatment during which the instrument is driven by a handpiece and generates a set of acoustic emission signals, wherein the method comprises the steps of:
- capturing and analyzing the set of acoustic emission signals generated by the use of the instrument;
- when a failure of the instrument occurs, thereby generating a failure acoustic emission signal, detecting said failure acoustic emission signal among the set of acoustic emission signals captured and analyzed in order to detect the occurrence of the failure.
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