“…Methods that allow evaluation of samples with less preparation and provide quantitative results are more favorable for experimenting surface roughness. Atomic force microscopy (Ballal, Khandewal, Karthikeyan, Somayaji, & Foschi, ; Hu et al, ), SEM (Foschi, Nucci, Montebugnoli, Marchionni, Breschi, Malagnino, & Prati , ), confocal laser scanning microscopy (de Macedo, Colucci, Messias, Rached‐Júnior, Fernandes, Silva‐Sousa, & Raucci‐Neto , ; Oliveira, Raucci Neto, Faria, Fernandes, Miranda, & Abi Rached‐Junior, ), surface roughness testers (Ari, Erdemir, & Belli, ; Ballal, Mala, & Bhat, ; Eldeniz, Erdemir, & Belli, ), and digital imaging devices (Sabet & Lutfy, ) have been used in previous reports.…”