“…A plethora of methodological approaches has been used to assess the effects of different endodontic procedures on dentinal crack formation, including endoscopy (95), infrared thermography (96), microcomputed tomography with (46,97) and without (45) contrast agents, stereomicroscopy (17,19,31,95,98), optical coherence tomography (41), scanning electron microscopy (26,50,(99)(100)(101)(102)(103), sectioning (12,13,18,(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(27)(28)(29)(30)(32)(33)(34)(35)52,53,61,104), synchrotron (40), transillumination (105), and transmission electron microscopy (102) ( Table 3). It is beyond doubt that these techniques have shown potential for endodontic research and have been used successfully over many years; however, some of them may provide questionable data.…”