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Clinical study of retrograde filling with gold leaf: comparison with amalgam
1Oral Surgery Department, School of Dentistry, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, and Oral Pathology
|February 1, 1991
Abstract:
Thirty-six patients underwent endodontic surgery involving 66 teeth, with each root canal being retrofilled with either gold leaf or amalgam. A follow-up of most patients was conducted for 6 to 24 months. There was no significant difference in bone healing between the gold leaf-filled and amalgam-filled root cavities (p greater than 0.05). Gold leaf appeared to be a good alternative retrograde filling material and had a number of benefits over amalgam.