Pretreatment of natural caries lesions affects penetration depth of infiltrants in vitro

Abstract

This paper shows that proper drying is an important step prior to caries infiltration.

Evaluation of Surface Roughness Characteristics Using Atomic Force Microscopy and Inspection of Microhardness Following Resin Infiltration with Icon®

“…Although there are many studies in the literature which investigate the properties of the infiltrant, there is only one study which aims to evaluate the material at a nano‐scale using AFM . In addition, the previous studies which investigate the microhardness of Icon ® show differing results .…”

Micro-hardness and mineral loss of enamel lesions after infiltration with various resins: Influence of infiltrant composition and application frequency in vitro

“…Ethanol rinsing or (in vitro) immersion facilitates sufficient drying of enamel. 17 Specimens were randomly allocated to five groups (n = 20) according to four experimental and one commercial infiltrant (Icon, DMG, Hamburg, Germany). Experimental resins differed in their acrylic resin content (TEGDMA only versus TEGDMABis-GMA composites) and their solvent content (with or without ethanol), and were chosen on the basis of a previous study 6 ( Table 1).…”

“…The second demineralisation simulates cariogenic challenge of infiltrated lesions, since resin infiltration is mainly performed to prevent further demineralisation. 17 Some samples broke during the experimental process; the final numbers of samples is reported within the results.…”

Penetration of resin‐based materials into initial erosion lesion: A confocal microscopic study

“…Nevertheless, the indirect technique may not have the same benefits for visual-ization of these parameters on erosion lesions. Some studies show that the depth of erosion lesions is around 10 mm (Stenhagen et al, 2013) and the depth of initial caries lesion can range from 300 to 600 mm (Paris et al, 2009(Paris et al, , 2013. On the other hand, the depth of erosion lesion is similar to the lesion that occurs after etching sound enamel with phosphoric acid prior to material application-15-20 mm (Holzmeier et al, 2008), in which the direct technique is often used (D'Alpino et al, 2006a;Pioch et al, 1997;Watson and Boyde, 1987;Watson et al, 2000).…”