Avaliação da degradação de elásticos ortodônticos intraorais de látex

• Autor(a) principal: Fernandes, Daniel Jogaib
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• 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/1/14102
• topic: Elastomers; Dental materials; Biomedical materials; Orthodontics; Odontology; Elastômeros; Materiais odontológicos; Materiais biomédicos; Ortodontia; Odontologia; Materiais dentários; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::ODONTOLOGIA::ORTODONTIA

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the force relaxation of different brands and diameters of latex elastics occurring during different times. Groups of 15 medium forces elastics from manufacturers: American Orthodontics (Sheboygan, Wis, USA), Tp (La Porte, IN, USA), Morelli Orthodontics (Sorocaba, SP, Brazil) and Uniden Orthodontics (Sorocaba, SP, Brazil) with diameters: 3/16, 1/4 and 5/16 inch size were tested at 0,1,3,6,12,24 hours, making a total of 1080 specimens. An apparatus was designed to simulate oral environments during elastics stretching. The forces were read after 1,3,6,12 and 24-hour periods in Emic testing machine (Emic Co, Sao Paulo, Brazil) with 30 mm/min cross-head speed and load cell of 2Kg Emic force (Emic Co, Sao Paulo, Brazil)¬¬¬¬¬. Kruskal-Wallis and Dunns tests were used to identify statistical significance. Overall, there were statistically differences among the different manufacturers at all observation intervals, except between Morelli and Tp. Significantly variability were seen in Morelli and Uniden force delivery. The relationships among loads at 0-hour time period were as follows: Morelli>AO>Uniden>Tp for 3/16 (p=.0016) and 1/4 elastics (p=.0016) and Morelli>AO>Tp>Uniden for 5/16 elastics (p=.0087). The forces relaxation over the 24-hour time period were AO>Morelli>Uniden>Tp for 3/16 elastics; AO>Tp>Morelli>Uniden for 1/4; and Tp>AO>Uniden>Morelli for 5/16 elastics.The force decay pattern show a notable drop-off of forces during 0-3 hours, a slight increase in force values from 3-6 hours and a progressive force decay was seen over 6-24 hours.