Pits and fissure sealant guidelines

Setting characteristics of fissure sealant.

Koichi FUJII*, Junichi OKU*, Hiroyuki ARIKAWA*, Hiroto YAMAUCHI**, Hideo OHNO****, Tadashi OGURA*** and Katsuichiro INOUE* * Department of Dental Materials Science, ** First Department of Prosthetic Dentistry, *** Department of Pediatric Dentistry , Kagoshima University Dental School, 1208-1 Usuki, Kagoshima 890, Japan **** Department of Pediatric Dentistry , Nagasaki University School of Denti...

A Laboratory Evaluation of a New Pit and Fissure Sealant

A variety of pit and fissure sealants are used clinically to protect the occlusal surfaces of teeth against dental caries. A new chemically activated bis-GMA type sea­ lant, Delton Pit and Fissure Sealant, has recently be­ come commercially available. The Delton Etching So­ lution supplied with the sealant contains 35 per cent orthophosphoric acid. The tensile bond strength of this sealant to e...

Pit and fissure sealant: review of the literature

For this literature review of pit and fissure sealant, 1,465 references were selected by a search for “sealants” on PubMed. References were limited to dental journals and papers in the English language. The search comprised papers from 1971 to October 2001. Additional papers of historical significance prior to 1971 were added from memory and from reference lists published in early papers. This ...

Compomer pit and fissure sealant for the Total-SealTM technique

A Laboratory Evaluation of a New Pit and Fissure Sealant

A variety of pit and fissure sealants are used clinically to protect the occlusal surfaces of teeth against dental caries. A new chemically activated bis-GMA type sea­ lant, Delton Pit and Fissure Sealant, has recently be­ come commercially available. The Delton Etching So­ lution supplied with the sealant contains 35 per cent orthophosphoric acid. The tensile bond strength of this sealant to e...