A pilot study investigating the presence of voids in bulk fill flowable composites
dc.contributor.author | Mulder, R. | en_ZA |
dc.contributor.author | Mohammed, N. | en_ZA |
dc.contributor.author | Du Plessis, A. | en_ZA |
dc.contributor.author | Le Roux, S. G. | en_ZA |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-01-18T10:44:05Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-01-18T10:44:05Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
dc.description | CITATION: Mulder, R., et al. 2017. A pilot study investigating the presence of voids in bulk fill flowable composites. South African Dental Journal, 72(10):462:465, doi:10.17159/2519-0105/2017/v72no10a3. | |
dc.description | The original publication is available at http://www.scielo.org.za | |
dc.description.abstract | OBJECTIVE: To investigate the presence of voids in bulk fill flowable composites. METHODS: This study investigated two well-known bulk-fill flowable composites, Smart Dentin Replacement (SDR) (Dentsply/Caulk, Milford, Germany) and Filtek bulk fill flowable (FBF) (3M ESPE, Minnesota, USA). Three ampules of each material were randomly selected. The ampules were subjected to 3D Micro-CT (General Electric Phoenix V|Tome|X L240) reconstruction in order to assess the presence of any voids within the ampules. RESULTS: Voids were present in all the ampules. The total void percentage for each group of three ampules was found to be SDR : 1.147 % and FBF : 0.0424 %. There was a significant difference between the volume of voids for SDR and FBF, p-value=0.003924. CONCLUSION: Voids were found in the randomly selected samples of bulk-fill flowable composites. This is undesirable and manufacturers should be urged to ensure that no voids are present, or at least are minimized in the ampules of material. | en_ZA |
dc.description.uri | http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0011-85162017001000005 | |
dc.description.version | Publisher's version | en_ZA |
dc.format.extent | 4 pages | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.citation | Mulder, R., et al. 2017. A pilot study investigating the presence of voids in bulk fill flowable composites. South African Dental Journal, 72(10):462:465, doi:10.17159/2519-0105/2017/v72no10a3 | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.issn | 0375-1562 (online) | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0011-8516 (print) | |
dc.identifier.other | doi:10.17159/2519-0105/2017/v72no10a3 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/105349 | |
dc.language.iso | en_ZA | en_ZA |
dc.publisher | South African Dental Association | en_ZA |
dc.rights.holder | South African Dental Journal | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Voids | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Displacement vector fields | en_ZA |
dc.subject | 3D Micro-CT reconstruction | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Dental composites | en_ZA |
dc.title | A pilot study investigating the presence of voids in bulk fill flowable composites | en_ZA |
dc.type | Article | en_ZA |