Gutta Percha and Updated Obturating Techniques

A Comparative Study of the Microleakage of Resilon/Epiphany and Gutta-Percha/AH-Plus Obturating Systems

INTRODUCTION The aim of the present study was to investigate and compare the apical sealing ability of Resilon/Epiphany-filled root canals with those that were obturated with gutta-percha/AH-Plus endodontic sealer. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 60 extracted human single-rooted teeth were selected; 25 teeth for each test group and five for each control group. After conducting conventional e...

Long-Retained Gutta Percha Pessary

Evaluation of Fracture Resistance of Endodontically Treated Teeth Filled with Gutta-Percha and Resilon Obturating Material: An In Vitro Study

BACKGROUND As per many studies endodontically treated teeth are widely considered to be more susceptible to fracture than vital teeth. Obturation strains and post placement have been a major cause of vertical root fracture. Present study was conducted to compare in vitro fracture resistance after filling with either Gutta-percha or Resilon by lateral condensation techniques in root canals. This...

The thermomechanical properties of gutta-percha. I. The compressibility of gutta-percha.

Sample wafers of compounded dental gutta-percha and uncompounded dental-grade gutta-percha were compression tested to 20,000 pounds in uniaxial and triaxial systerns. Unrestrained flow in the uniaxial series prevented development of stress levels sufficient to produce molecular compression. Negligible molecular compression did occur in the triaxial series but only above a stress level of approx...

Plus/gutta-percha, EndoREZ and RealSeal systems

test of AH Plus/gutta-percha, EndoREZ and RealSeal systems Alaa Abdul MAHDI1, Victoria BOLAÑOS-CARMONA2, Santiago GONZALEZ-LOPEZ3 1PhD student, Department of Stomatology, School of Dentistry, University of Granada, Granada, Spain. 2PhD, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, University of Granada, Granada, Spain. 3PhD, MD, Associate Professor, Departmen...