Table 5.
Canal configuration in the mandibular first premolar according to percentage of Vartucci’s classification.
| Reference | Population | Percentage of Vartucci classification |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I | II | III | IV | V | VI | VII | VIII | A | ||
| Sert and Bayirli [7] | Turkey | 60.5 | 18.5 | 10.5 | 7 | 2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Vartucci [11] | USA | 70 | 0 | 4 | 1.5 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 |
| Peiris [19] | Sri Lanka | 64.2 | 0 | 2.5 | 1.2 | 28.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.7 |
| Japan | 82.6 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 0 | 15.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Velmurugan and Sandhya [21] | India | 72 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Awawdeh and Al-Qudah [24] | Jordan | 58.2 | 4.8 | 1.4 | 14.4 | 16.8 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 0 | 2.6 |
| Khidmat et al. [25] | Iran | 88.47 | 1.84 | 3.22 | 0.9 | 4.14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.38 |
| Jain and Bahuguna [32] | India | 67.39 | 7.97 | 3.62 | 2.89 | 17.39 | 0.72 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Present study | Egypt | 61.2 | 5.6 | 2.8 | 13.2 | 16.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 |