Quantificação da área ocupada pela guta-percha e pelo Resilon® em canais achatados após termoplastificação

• Autor(a) principal: Melo, Marcello Ghetti de
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/14127
• topic: Endodontics; Gutta-percha; Resilon®; Apical third; Filled area; Endodontia; Guta-percha; Resilon®; Terço apical; Área obturada; Obturações (Odontologia); Materiais dentários; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::ODONTOLOGIA::ENDODONTIA

The aim of this study was to determine a quantitative comparison of gutta-percha and Resilon® filled areas in the apical third of human mandibular incisors, ex vivo, after obturation by continuous wave condensation technique. The tooth samples were submitted to irrigation and instrumentation protocol and randomly divided in two groups of twenty-one each. No sealer was used. After obturation, a horizontal section was cut 3mm and 5mm from the apical foramen of each tooth. The two groups were subdivided according to cut height and obturation material as follows: GP3 (gutta-percha with 3mm section), GP5 (gutta-percha with 5mm section), R3 (Resilon® with 3mm section) e R5 (Resilon® with 5mm section). The samples were later prepared for microscopic analysis and photomicrographs of each apical surface were taken at magnifications from 50x to 100x. The cross-sections of the canal areas with the obturation materials were measured using an image analysis program, obtaining the measurement of each canal area and filled area in micrometers. The circular form of each sample was rated automatically by a mathematic formula used by the program, where 1 (one) is considered a perfect circle, and as it flattens, the value approaches 0 (zero). The digital imaging analysis obtained the canal area, the circular form from 0 to 1, the area filled by obturation material, and the percentage of material filled area relative to the canal area. The percentage difference of the filled canal area among the groups was analyzed using a Student s t-test. Significant differences were found between GP3 and R3. The greatest percentage of filled canal area occurred in the R3 group (p<0,05). With respect to the relationship of the circular form with the quantity of filling material, by using the Pearson Correlation test, no significant correlation was found between the final form of the canal and the quantity of root canal filling by the obturation materials tested. In conclusion, a great variation in the minimum and maximum filled percentage occurred all groups tested and the Resilon® group showed a higher percentage of filled root canal area in their samples.