The effect of endodontic materials on the optical density of dyes used in marginal leakage studies

The aim of this study was to determine the effect of the exposure of different endodontic materials to different dye solutions by evaluating the optical density of the dye solutions. Seventy-five plastic tubes were filled with one of the following materials: AH Plus, Sealapex, Portland cement, MTA (Angelus and Pro Root) and fifteen control plastic tubes were not. Each specimen of material and control was immersed in a container with 1 ml of each dye solution. A 0.1 ml-dye solution aliquote was removed before immersion and after 12, 24, 48 and 72 hours of each specimen immersion to record its optical density (OD) in a spectrophotometer. Statistical analysis was performed with ANOVA and Tukey tests (5%). No significant difference was found among any of the solution OD values for AH Plus cement. Portland cement promoted different OD values after 12 hours of immersion. MTA-Angelus cement presented different OD values only for 2% rhodamine B and the MTA-Pro Root cement presented different OD values in all 2% rhodamine B samples. Sealapex cement promoted a reduction in the India Ink OD values. Dye evaluation through OD seems to be an interesting method to select the best dye solution to use in a given marginal leakage study.

Influência do tipo de fundição e uso de retificação na interface pilar/cilindro protético na adaptação marginal e tensão peri-implantar sobre conexão protética tipo Micro-Unit

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Avaliação do selamento marginal em restaurações de resina composta executadas em dentes bovinos, variando os métodos de preparos cavitários e os meios de fotopolimerização

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Controle de qualidade em microfiltração marginal

Pós-graduação em Ciências Odontológicas - FOAR

Processamento interpretativo de dados magnetométricos e inversão de dados gravimétricos aplicados à prospecção de hidrocarbonetos

Apresentamos dois métodos de interpretação de dados de campos potenciais, aplicados à prospecção de hidrocarbonetos. O primeiro emprega dados aeromagnéticos para estimar o limite, no plano horizontal, entre a crosta continental e a crosta oceânica. Este método baseia-se na existência de feições geológicas magnéticas exclusivas da crosta continental, de modo que as estimativas das extremidades destas feições são usadas como estimativas dos limites da crosta continental. Para tanto, o sinal da anomalia aeromagnética na região da plataforma, do talude e da elevação continental é amplificado através do operador de continuação analítica para baixo usando duas implementações: o princípio da camada equivalente e a condição de fronteira de Dirichlet. A maior carga computacional no cálculo do campo continuado para baixo reside na resolução de um sistema de equações lineares de grande porte. Este esforço computacional é minimizado através do processamento por janelas e do emprego do método do gradiente conjugado na resolução do sistema de equações. Como a operação de continuação para baixo é instável, estabilizamos a solução através do funcional estabilizador de primeira ordem de Tikhonov. Testes em dados aeromagnéticos sintéticos contaminados com ruído pseudo-aleatório Gaussiano mostraram a eficiência de ambas as implementações para realçar os finais das feições magnéticas exclusivas da crosta continental, permitindo o delineamento do limite desta com a crosta oceânica. Aplicamos a metodologia em suas duas implementações a dados aeromagnéticos reais de duas regiões da costa brasileira: Foz do Amazonas e Bacia do Jequitinhonha. O segundo método delineia, simultaneamente, a topografia do embasamento de uma bacia sedimentar e a geometria de estruturas salinas contidas no pacote sedimentar. Os modelos interpretativos consistem de um conjunto de prismas bidimensionais verticais justapostos, para o pacote sedimentar e de prismas bidimensionais com seções verticais poligonais para as estruturas salinas. Estabilizamos a solução, incorporando características geométricas do relevo do embasamento e das estruturas salinas compatíveis com o ambiente geológico através dos estabilizadores da suavidade global, suavidade ponderada e da concentração de massa ao longo de direções preferenciais, além de vínculos de desigualdade nos parâmetros. Aplicamos o método a dados gravimétricos sintéticos produzidos por fontes 2D simulando bacias sedimentares intracratônicas e marginais apresentando densidade do pacote sedimentar variando com a profundidade segundo uma lei hiperbólica e abrigando domos e almofadas salinas. Os resultados mostraram que o método apresenta potencial para delinear, simultaneamente, as geometrias tanto de almofadas e domos salinos, como de relevos descontínuos do embasamento. Aplicamos o método, também, a dados reais ao longo de dois perfis gravimétricos sobre as Bacias de Campos e do Jequitinhonha e obtivemos interpretações compatíveis com a geologia da área.

Comparação da infiltração marginal de restaurações adesivas empregando instrumento rotativo ou um sistema químico-mecânico na remoção do tecido cariado

Pós-graduação em Odontologia Restauradora - ICT

Avaliação da microinfiltração marginal em restaurações de resina composta, quando o colágeno dentinário é mantido ou eliminado após o condicionamento ácido, alterando-se o período de armazenamento e a termociclagem

Pós-graduação em Odontologia Restauradora - ICT

Adaptação marginal do agregado de trióxido mineral com e sem cloreto de cálcio em retrocavidades

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Influência do cimento obturador e agente de irrigação final na infiltração marginal em situações de sobreobturações endodônticas

Objective: The objective of this paper was to verify if the final irrigation at 17% EDTA, separately or followed by chlorhexidine digluconate at 2% interferes on the apical marginal leakage in root canal overfilling, due to the use of two root canal filling materials (Sealer 26TM or SealapexTM). Methods: Forty lower incisors extracted, with a single root canal, were biomechanically prepared, at 2.0mm beyond the radicular apex, with ProTaper SystemTM, finishing it with the F3 instrument. Irrigation was accomplished with 1.0 mL NaOCl at 2.5% at each change of equipment caliper and, in the end, with 5.0 mL normal saline solution. After achieving this procedure, the foraminal channels was standardized with a file K 25 until its DO appears in the foraminal opening. From this moment, the teeth were subdivided into two groups of 20 specimens each, because of the final irrigation method used: I – irrigation with EDTA at 17% for 3min and II – identical protocol, thus, after EDTA aspiration at17%, it was again irrigated with chlorhexidine digluconate at 2%, also kept intra-canal for 3min. Each group was again sub-divided into two sub-groups (ten teeth each), according to the cement used (Sealer 26TM or SealapexTM), and filled by using a single gutta-percha F1 (ProTaperTM, Universal Filling), in such a manner that it goes 2.0 mm beyond the radicular apex. Soon after that, the teeth were immersed in Rhodamine BTM for 72h, vacuum and after the roots have been bucolingually grooved, the leakages marked were measured with program Image ToolTM. Results and Conclusions: The leakage magnitude was similar among themselves (p > 0.05), except for group Sealapex®, thus the final use with chlorhexidine reduced apical leakage (p < 0.05).

Reliability of marginal microleakage assessment by visual and digital methods

The aim of this study was to investigate the reliability of visual and digital methods to assess marginal microleakage in vitro. Materials and Methods: Typical Class V preparations were made in bovine teeth and filled with composite resin. After dye penetration (0.5% basic fuchsin), teeth were sectioned and the 53 obtained fragments were assessed according to visual (stereomicroscope) and digital methods (Image Tool Software ® -ITS) (University of Texas Health Science Center-San Antonio Dental School, USA). Two calibrated examiners (A and B) evaluated dye penetration, by means of a stereomicroscope with ×20 magnification (scores), and by the ITS (millimeters). The intra- and inter-examiner agreement was estimated according to Kappa statistics (κ), and intraclass correlation coefficient (ρ). Results: In relation to the visual method, the intra-examiner agreement was almost perfect (κA = 0.87) and substantial (κB = 0.76), respectively to the examiner A and B. The inter-examiner agreement showed an almost perfect reliability (κ = 0.84). For the digital method, the intra-examiner agreement was almost perfect for both examiners and equal to ρ = 0.99, and so was the inter-examiner agreement value. Conclusion: Visual (stereomicroscope) and digital methods (ITS) showed high levels of intra- and inter-examiner reproducibility when marginal microleakage was assessed.

Análise da influência de variantes do método de solução de escoamentos utilizando os métodos de elementos finitos com compressibilidade artificial e pseudo-características

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Oscilador harmônico unidimensional via transformada unilateral de Fourier e mapeamento do potencial de morse unidimensional nos potenciais pseudo-harmônico e de kratzer tridimensionais

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Oscilador harmônico unidimensional via transformada unilateral de Fourier e mapeamento do potencial de morse unidimensional nos potenciais pseudo-harmônico e de kratzer tridimensionais

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Prosthetic misfit of implant-supported prosthesis obtained by an alternative section method

PURPOSE. Adequate passive-fitting of one-piece cast 3-element implant-supported frameworks is hard to achieve. This short communication aims to present an alternative method for section of one-piece cast frameworks and for casting implant-supported frameworks. MATERIALS AND METHODS. Three-unit implant-supported nickel-chromium (Ni-Cr) frameworks were tested for vertical misfit (n = 6). The frameworks were cast as one-piece (Group A) and later transversally sectioned through a diagonal axis (Group B) and compared to frameworks that were cast diagonally separated (Group C). All separated frameworks were laser welded. Only one side of the frameworks was screwed. RESULTS. The results on the tightened side were significantly lower in Group C (6.43 +/- 3.24 mu m) when compared to Groups A (16.50 +/- 7.55 mu m) and B (16.27 +/- 1.71 mu m) (P<.05). On the opposite side, the diagonal section of the one-piece castings for laser welding showed significant improvement in the levels of misfit of the frameworks (Group A, 58.66 +/- 14.30 mu m; Group B, 39.4.8 +/- 12.03 mu m; Group C, 23.13 +/- 8.24 mu m) (P<.05). CONCLUSION. Casting diagonally sectioned frameworks lowers the misfit levels. Lower misfit levels for the frameworks can be achieved by diagonally sectioning one-piece frameworks. [J Adv Prosthodont 2012;4:89-92]

Transverse pseudo-nonlinear effects measured in solid-state laser materials using a sensitive time-resolved technique

We present a detailed study of the Baryscan technique, a new efficient alternative to the widespread Z-scan technique which has been demonstrated [Opt. Lett. 36:8, 2011] to reach among the highest sensitivity levels. This method is based upon the measurement of optical nonlinearities by means of beam centroid displacements with a position sensitive detector and is able to deal with any kind of lensing effect. This technique is applied here to measure pump-induced electronic refractive index changes (population lens), which can be discriminated from parasitic thermal effects by using a time-resolved Baryscan experiment. This method is validated by evaluating the polarizability variation at the origin of the population lens observed in the reference Cr3+:GSGG laser material.