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Brazilian Journal of Oral Sciences
Piracicaba Dental School - UNICAMP
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Vol. 8, No. 3, 2009, pp. 141-144
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Bioline Code: os09029
Full paper language: English
Document type: Research Article
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Brazilian Journal of Oral Sciences, Vol. 8, No. 3, 2009, pp. 141-144
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Apical gaps after apicoectomy procedures performed on teeth filled with gutta-percha or ResilonTM
Duarte, Marco Antonio Hungaro; Locci, Angélica Marquezim Lopes; de Moraes, Ivaldo Gomes; Tanomaru, Juliane Maria Guerreiro & Filho, Mário Tanomaru
Abstract
Aim:
This ex vivo study compared, under scanning electron microscopy (SEM), the marginal adaptation of
root canal obturation with either ResilonTM or gutta-percha cones following root-end resection.
Methods:
Thirty human single-rooted teeth with fully formed apices were collected and decoronated. The root canals
were instrumented up to a size 45 taper .04 and obturated with laterally condensed gutta-percha (Group 1;
n=15) or ResilonTM (Group 2; n=15). AH Plus sealer was used in both groups. After 48-h storage in saline, the
apical 3 mm of each root were resected with a water-cooled high-speed plain fissure #170L carbide bur.
Epoxy resin replicas of the resected root ends were examined by SEM. The total area of apical gap in each
replica was measured using UTHSCSA ImageTool software. Data were analyzed statistically by the Mann-
Whitney U-test (α=5%).
Results:
The mean area of apical gap in groups 1 and 2 was 0.0042 mm2 and 0.0015
mm2, respectively, with no statistically significant difference (P = 0.83).
Conclusions:
The type of material
did not influence at the apical adaptation of root canal obturation after apicoectomy, and the misfit may be
related to anatomic factors.
Keywords
apicoectomy, Resilon TM, gutta-percha.
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