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Peroxide penetration from the pulp chamber to the external root surface after internal bleaching
Renato Miotto Palo1, Marcia Carneiro Valera, Samira Esteves Afonso Camargo
1Department of Endodontics, São Paulo State University, Araraquara, SP, Brazil.
Purpose:
To quantify the amount of peroxide penetration from the pulp chamber to the external surface of teeth during the walking bleaching technique.
Methods:
Seventy-two bovine lateral incisors were randomly divided over five experimental groups and one control (n = 12 per group): (1) 35% hydrogen peroxide (HP); (2) 35% carbamide peroxide (CP); (3) sodium perborate (SP); (4) (HP+SP); (5) (CP+SP) and (6) Control (CG), deionized water. All groups were treated according to the walking bleach technique. After 7 days at 37 degrees C in an acetate buffer solution, 100 microl violet leukocrystal coloring and 50 microl peroxidase was added, producing a blue stain that could be measured in a spectrophotometer and then converted into peroxide microg/ml.
Results:
G5 exhibited the greatest penetration, while G2 and G3 produced the lowest values. All bleaching agents penetrated from the pulp chamber to the external root surface. There was a direct correlation between the presence of oxidative agents and penetration potential. Sodium perborate in distilled water was less oxidative and appeared to be the least aggressive bleaching agent.
