A pilot study investigating the presence of voids in bulk fill flowable composites

dc.contributor.authorMulder, R.en_ZA
dc.contributor.authorMohammed, N.en_ZA
dc.contributor.authorDu Plessis, A.en_ZA
dc.contributor.authorLe Roux, S. G.en_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-18T10:44:05Z
dc.date.available2019-01-18T10:44:05Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.descriptionCITATION: 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.descriptionThe original publication is available at http://www.scielo.org.za
dc.description.abstractOBJECTIVE: 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.urihttp://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0011-85162017001000005
dc.description.versionPublisher's versionen_ZA
dc.format.extent4 pagesen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationMulder, 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/v72no10a3en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0375-1562 (online)
dc.identifier.issn0011-8516 (print)
dc.identifier.otherdoi:10.17159/2519-0105/2017/v72no10a3
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/105349
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherSouth African Dental Associationen_ZA
dc.rights.holderSouth African Dental Journalen_ZA
dc.subjectVoidsen_ZA
dc.subjectDisplacement vector fieldsen_ZA
dc.subject3D Micro-CT reconstructionen_ZA
dc.subjectDental compositesen_ZA
dc.titleA pilot study investigating the presence of voids in bulk fill flowable compositesen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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