RESEARCH ARTICLE
The Temperature Dependence of Micro-Leakage between Restorative and Pulp Capping Materials by Cu Diffusion
Kamalak H1, Mumcu A2, Altin S*, 3
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2015Volume: 9
First Page: 140
Last Page: 145
Publisher ID: TODENTJ-9-140
DOI: 10.2174/1874210601509010140
Article History:
Received Date: 25/11/2015Revision Received Date: 18/3/2015
Acceptance Date: 21/3/2015
Electronic publication date: 31 /3/2015
Collection year: 2015
open-access license: This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.
Abstract
We used the Cu ions for the leakage analysis between pulp capping and restorative materials. Theoretically, Cu has more advantages than Ag ions due to their smaller radii (rCu2+=73 pm and rAg2+=94 pm), lower mass density (dCu=8.96 g/cm3 and dAg=10.49 g/cm3) and higher radio opacity which can be more useful by X-ray or EDX detectors, cheaper price and more abundance in planet when compared with Ag element which is generally used in the leakage studies. The micro leakage between dental restorations and pulp capping materials has been determined by using Micro Computed Tomography, Scanning Electron Microscopy and EDX analysis. It is found that the leakage has temperature dependent mechanism which increases with the increasing temperature. As a result, using Cu solution for leakage studies in dentine is an effective and easy method which can be used in dental science.
