This work deals with the design, the characterization and testing of a novel glass-ceramic to be used as sealant for planar solid oxide fuel cells and its compatibility with Mn1.5Co1.5O4 coated Crofer22APU. Thermal, sintering and crystallization behaviour and thermo mechanical properties of the sealant are reviewed and discussed, indicating therefore that these compositions can be deposited at ...

To study the performance of bitumen mixture pavement sealants from their micro-mechanisms, physical properties base bitumen, SBS-modified and epoxy resin sealant as well adhesive sealant-aggregate interfaces were studied using a molecular dynamics simulation. The adhesion sealant-pavement crack wall was contact angle test based on surface energy theory. results show that has excellent propertie...

INTRODUCTION/AIM To appraise the clinical literature in determining whether loss of complete sealant retention as surrogate endpoint is directly associated with caries occurrence on sealed teeth as its clinical endpoint and to apply the appraised evidence in testing the null-hypothesis that the retention/caries ratio between different types of sealant materials (resin and glass-ionomer cement) ...

PURPOSE To investigate the effect of intracameral injection of fibrin tissue sealant on the anterior segment structures in a rabbit model. METHODS One eye of 10 rabbits received an intracameral injection of fibrin tissue sealant with a thrombin concentration of 500 IU (TISSEEL), and the fellow eye received an intracameral injection of balanced salt solution as a control. The rabbits were foll...

PURPOSE As a national objective, 50% of US children are expected to have dental sealants on at least one permanent molar by the age of 14 years. The present study was conducted to estimate the prevalence of dental sealants among Alabama Medicaid children and to evaluate the characteristics of the sealant users and non-users so the potential barriers in meeting the year 2000/2010 sealant objecti...

Dental sealants and composite filling materials containing bisphenol-A (BPA) derivatives are increasingly used in children. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between salivary BPA and the number of tooth surfaces filled with dental sealant, and to determine a cutoff BPA level. Salivary BPA concentration and the number of tooth surfaces filled with dental sealant/resin were de...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of Adherus Dural Sealant when used as an adjunct to sutures in dural closure in a canine durotomy repair model. The effectiveness was evaluated at time of surgery, Day 8 and again at approximately 6 months by pressure testing. The safety and endurance of the test article was evaluated over approximately six months using ma...

Retention of fissure sealant in deep pits and fissures of molar is the main criteria for successful prevention of occurrence of dental caries. These fissure sealants are subjected to various factors like oral hygiene practices and dietary habit that differs from place to place. So a study was conducted to evaluate and compare the retention rate of the flowable composite resin sealant among the ...

A survey was conducted to identify and compare sealant knowledge and sources of sealant information of parents whose children had and had not received fissure sealants. The socioeconomic characteristics of these individuals were also compared. The sealant group was composed of the parents of children found to have a sealant on at least one permanent tooth during dental examinations of 2,036 ele...

Glass Carbomer is a new generation of restorative material developed from glass-ionomer cements with possibility of gradual mineralization into fluorapatite. The aim of this clinical trial was to investigate the retention of Glass Carbomer fissure sealant after 12 months, in comparison to a commonly used conventional resin-based sealant. Forty-eight teeth in 24 patients [mean (SD) = 8 (2.3) yea...