Avaliação da influência do laser de Er:YAG no selamento de cavidades de cárie radicular induzidas in vitro e restauradas com cimentos de ionômero de vidro / Evaluation of the influence of the Er:YAG laser on the sealing of in vitro induced root caries cavities restored with glass ionomer cements

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2005

RESUMO

Failures of root caries restoration such as microinfiltration and secondary caries are mostly due to the difficult to reach the lesions and to the types of substrate. Thus, there is a constant search for new dental materials and caries removal techniques in order to minimize or extinguish these failures. The aim of this study was to induce root caries in vitro for testing the marginal sealing capacity of two glass ionomer cements (Ketac Fill Plus e Vitremer) applied these caries cavities prepared with Er:YAG laser irradiation. Forty-five human teeth were used (molars and premolars). After the in vitro root caries induction using S. mutans the caries lesions were removed by three different methods: Er;YAG laser irradiation at the dentin preparation parameters (250 mJ, 4 Hz, 80.6 J/cm2); or the irradiation with this dentin preparation parameters followed buy a surface conditioning parameters (60 mJ e 2 Hz, 19,2 J/cm2); or by the conventional technique using burs (control). Three teeth of each group were prepared for scanning electron microscopy morphological observation. Thirty-six teeth were divided into six groups (six teeth per group) according to the type of cavity preparation (3) and the cement used in the restoration (2). After the restoration the samples were thermocycled (1,000) cycles and prepared for the microinfiltration test. The sealing was measured by the degree of the 2% methylene blue solution infiltration and these results were transformed into scores. The data in triplicate were compared by statistical test of Kruskall-Wallis complemented by the Dunn’s test. The better scores were observed at the groups treated by the Er:YAG laser irradiation and the best result was obtained using the Er:YAG laser at the dentin preparation parameter followed by the restoration of the 10 cavity with the modified glass ionomer (Vitremer). Based on the results at the experimental conditions used we concluded that dental root caries should be removed by Er:YAG laser irradiation and restored with the modified glass ionomer.

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micro-infiltração glass ionomer cárie radicular root caries cimento de ionômero de vidro micro-infiltration er:yag laser laser de er:yag

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