Catalogue 2017
64Pages

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Foreword Dear customers, I am pleased to present the new FKG Dentaire catalogue featuring each of our products in the same order that they would be used during an endodontic treatment. In keeping with our strategy to innovate, we have recently added several new products to our range, which you can learn to handle in ultramodern training centers in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Oslo and Dubai. Our worldwide revolution is called the XP-endo® Shaper, the latest arrival to the 3D XP-endo® instrumentation range. Thanks to its expansion capacity and booster tip featuring six sharp edges, it revolutionises...

FKG Dentaire, Founded in Switzerland in 1931, FKG Dentaire SA gained new momentum in 1994, the year Jean-Claude Rouiller took over the reins of the company. He propelled FKG to the forefront in the development, manufacturing and distribution of products destined for dentists, endodontists and laboratories. Flexible, quick to react and above all, innovative, FKG remains close to its markets and plays in the big leagues. Always able to anticipate and respond to the needs of end users, the company has built partnerships with the best universities in the world. In 2012 the son of JeanClaude...

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A. The benefits of innovation The latest products bearing the FKG label are in keeping with the company's strategy of offering a complete range of high-performance ergonomic instruments that maximize the patient's level of comfort and safety during endodontic treatment. In recent years, our engineers and product developers have been preoccupied with a biocompatible obturation material and devising new sterile instruments for practitioners that are even more effective at treating complex root canals. FKQ Swiss Endo Rooted in innovation

Developments / trends In the last decades, the field of endodontics has seen a large number of developments. Driven by new technologies, the biologic aims of endodontics are more achievable. Today, greater emphasis is placed on less invasive treatments, and on a better appreciation of the need to clean the canal in a 3D fashion, rather than according to the misleading 2D view seen in the typical periapical radiogaph. However, treatment still too often fails, either because of traditional problems like canal transportation, over-instrumentation, extrusion or compaction of debris, microcracks...

MaxWire®. Through a constant process of innovation and improvements, FKG has been working to ensure it can offer practitioners instruments capable of meeting all these requirements. With the creation of the exclusive MaxWire® alloy, FKG is bringing two fundamental properties to the forefront: superelasticity and shape memory, with the aim of creating a completely new generation of instruments. Unlike other instruments, these are able to react to variations in temperature and to take on a predetermined shape inside the root canal, at body temperature. Their specific preset shape and their...

01. XP-endo® Shaper One File Shaper The XP-endo Shaper is the latest addition to the XP-endo® range. It is a truly innovative shaping instrument which can be used to radically simplify endodontic sequences. It results from the combination of two cutting-edge technologies: - Made with MaxWire® alloy, like the XP-endo Finisher, it offers remarkable flexibility and fatigue resistance, and the ability to progress within the canals with ease and agility, expanding or contracting according to the canal morphology. With an initial taper of .01, the XP-endo Shaper expands once inside the...

Simplified handling Thanks to this unique instrument, treatment is easier to perform, treatment time is shorter, the risk of errors and incidents are radically reduced and the root structure is preserved. Shaping becomes a simple, safe and quick process. Minimal torque The torque is a highly important parameter to take into consideration. Higher torque means the instrument is subject to greater levels of stress, thereby increasing the risk of fracture. Due to its characteristics, the XP-endo Shaper enables the stress applied on the instrument and the canal walls to be restricted. This...

Problem: the complexity of the root canal and the success rate of an Endo treatment The root canal system is highly complex: it can be oval or C-shaped; the canals sometimes divide; or an isthmus may connect the canals (Dye and Micro CT 3D studies). In the face of such complexity, standard NiTi files are not always up to the task. Despite their flexibility, the files make round shapes only and thus cannot reach certain parts of the canal during treatment. Several studies involving micro CT technologies have shown that, on the whole, when standard NiTi files are used to prepare the root...

The solution: XP-endo Finisher Original canal anatomy Dentine The canal (area to be cleaned) Area cleaned Canal shaping with standard NiTi files Canal partially cleaned. Microbes and dental debris accumulate in the untouched areas. Canal shaping with standard NiTi files + XP-endo Finisher XP-endo Finisher idealy used following any root canal preparation to achieve an improved cleaning of the root canal while preserving dentine. XP-endo Finisher is incredibly flexible and can expand its reach 6mm in diameter or 100-fold of an equivalent sized file. This is why XP-endo Finisher allows...

As we now know, it is very difficult to fully eliminate the filling material during retreatment. Regardless of the technique used, there is some debris left behind after canal cleaning - in particular in curved or oval canals. Illustrations demonstrating the presence of filling material residue in the canal after retreatment using standard rotary instruments. After obturation procedure After retreatment procedure Representative micro-CT 3D reconstructions of a maxillary canine with oval-shaped canal after obturation. © Dr Marco Versiani and Dr Ali Keleş, All Rights Reserved The XP-endo...