RESEARCH ARTICLE
Resin Infiltration into Differentially Extended Experimental Carious Lesions
Wolfgang H Arnold *, 1, Lena Bachstaedter 1, Korbinian Benz 2, Ella A Naumova 1
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2014Volume: 8
First Page: 251
Last Page: 256
Publisher ID: TODENTJ-8-251
DOI: 10.2174/1874210601408010251
Article History:
Received Date: 5/10/2014Revision Received Date: 24/11/2014
Acceptance Date: 11/12/2014
Electronic publication date: 29 /12/2014
Collection year: 2014

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Abstract
Resin infiltration of initial caries lesions is a novel method of caries therapy. However, it has some limitations. Therefore, further experimental studies are needed to improve resin infiltration. It was the aim of this investigation to study resin infiltra-tion into different experimental carious lesions. Caries-free extracted human molars and premolars were demineralized for 3, 6, 9 and 12 days and infiltrated with resin. Prior to infiltration, the teeth were incubated with sodium fluorescein. After em-bedding, serial sections were cut through the experimental lesions, and the penetration of the resin was measured with fluo-rescence microscopy. Two infiltrated teeth from each time interval were not embedded and cut. Infiltration of the resin was then studied with EDS element analysis. The results showed that with increasing demineralization time, the lesion expansion was also increasing, and the resin infiltration was always almost complete. From these results it can be concluded that artifi-cial standardized caries-like lesions are suitable for experimental studies of resin infiltration.