Propriedades mecânicas de fios de NiTi e CuNiTi com efeito memória de forma utilizados em tratamentos ortodônticos

• Autor(a) principal: Gravina, Marco Abdo
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/14005
• topic: Mechanical properties; Superelasticity; Shape memory effect; Copper NiTi; Differential scanning calorimetry; Scanning electronic microscope; Propriedades mecânicas; Superelasticidade; Efeito memória de forma; Fios de NiTi com adição de cobre; Calorimetria diferencial; Microscopia eletrônica de varredura; Fio de material com memória de forma Propriedades mecânicas; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::ODONTOLOGIA::ORTODONTIA

Leveling and aligning orthodontic wires must be able to generate light and continuous forces. Thus need to have high springback and flexibility. For this purpose it was suggested a variety of supereslatic and termoactivated Nickel-Titanium (NiTi) wires that may offer a load-deformation curve, in a constant plataform. Copper NiTi wires are presented as exhibiting better thermoactivating properties for optimum-forces system with better dental movement control. The aim of this study was to compare 8 NiTi superelastic and thermoactivated wires of six different brands (GAC, TP, ORMCO, MASEL, MORELLI and UNITEK) to Copper addicted wires (CuNiTi 270C and 350C, ORMCO) to verify if the mechanical properties of Copper NiTi would support it s clinical use. Stress-strain tests were done in Engeneering Military Institute (IME-Brazil), through test machine (EMIC- DL 10000 model). Scanning electronic microscope with energy dispersive spectroscopy (JOEL, JSM-5800 LV model) was used to determine chemical composition and superficial topography of the wires. Results showed that, in general, thermoactivated NiTi wires exhibited lower deactivation loads when compared to NiTi superelastics. Among the thermoactivated, the GAC and UNITEK ones are the lighter ones. Among the superelastics, the Copper NiTi 270C (ORMCO) were the lighter ones, statistically similar (ANOVA) to thermoactivated NiTi from UNITEK, for 4% strain. Once Copper NiTi 270C showed deactivated loads 62% lower than Copper NiTi 350C , under 4% strain. As regard to Scanning Electronic Microscopy results for superelastic NiTi wires, better superficial burnishing were found for MASEL and MORELLI ones. On the other hand, the worst were ORMCO Superelastic NiTi and CuNiTi 270C. The thermoactivated ones were superficially visibly marked with inadequate superficial topography. Copper NiTi 350 C and UNITEK showed the worst burnishing among the thermoactivated wires, linked to microtags. It was concluded that CuNiTi 350 C showed the greatest deactivation loads and not favorable superficial burning.