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Effect of pulse-delay curing on in vitro wall-to-wall contraction of composite in dentin cavity preparations
A Sahafi1, A Peutzfeldt, E Asmussen
1Department of Dental Materials, School of Dentistry, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Purpose:
To determine the effect of pulse-delay curing of resin composite on marginal gap formation in dentin cavity preparations.
Materials And Methods:
Cylindrical cavities were prepared in extracted human molar dentin and were distributed into 8 groups (A-H). The cavity preparations were treated with a dentin-bonding agent (Prime & Bond NT) and filled with a light-cured resin composite (Z100). The restorations were irradiated initially for 1, 2 or 3 seconds at a power density of 425 mW/cm2. Following water storage for varying time intervals, the restorations were re-exposed for 10 seconds at 750 mW/cm2. Marginal gap formation was measured by light microscopy after 20 minutes of water-storage, and the wall-to-wall contraction was calculated as the widest gap in percent of cavity diameter.
Results:
Pulse-delay curing in combination with a waiting time of at least 1 minute between exposures reduced wall-to-wall contraction in dentin cavities compared to continuous-cure control.
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