Polymerization shrinkage evaluation of an universal light curing composite resin, varying the placement techniques, measured by gas pycnometer / "Avaliação da contração de polimerização de uma resina composta fotopolimerizável de uso universal, variando-se a técnica de inserção do material medida por picnômetro a gás"

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2004

RESUMO

Because of its versatility and aestetic excellency, composite resin is one of the most utilized direct restorative materials. Because of the resin intense use, the number of researches to improve its performance are numerous, and can be verified by the resin aestethetic behavior and its compressive and abrasion strenght increase. In spite of the mentioned developments, the polymerization shrinkage inherent of the material had been a major deficiency, and can be understood by the alteration in volume of the material after the polymerization process. In the present study, the polymerization shrinkage of the restorative material Charisma (Heraes Kulzer), was evaluated using bulk and incremental placement techniques and measured by gas pycnometer. Accupyc 1330 (Micromeritics, USA) pycnometer measures the helium displacement with great precision, allowing fast and accurate measurements of the volume of the composite resin before and after polymerization, without interference of the moisture or temperature. The results showed statistically significant diferences between the two placement techniques, with the bulk technique showing lower polymerization shrinkage than the incremental technique.

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polymerization shrinkage pycnometry placement technique picnometria técnica de inserção contração de polimerização

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