Generations of apex locators: which generation are we in?

Abstract

This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, for any purpose, even commercially, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. Abstract Endometrics is one of the key factors responsible for the success of endodontic therapy. Electronic determination of working length has gained enormous popularity, owing to its extreme accuracy and predictability. The literature is flooded with the self-proclaimed generations of the apex locators. This article is aimed at concise description of the actual scientific rationale behind the generations in order to diminish the related perplexity.